Kimi K2 0711 vs Mistral Large
Updated October 21, 2026. 14 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Kimi K2 0711 has the edge where output tokens cost 2.6x less, and where the context window is larger, 131K against 128K tokens.
- Shared results
- 14
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 22
- Mistral Large only
- 30
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 12.7 against 5.8.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 71.5% against 47.7%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 62.7% against 9.2%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 79.4% against 69.7%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1050.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017, Mistral Large $0.0050 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2 0711 not benchmarked, Mistral Large not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 35.6 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AIME: Kimi K2 0711 62.7% against Mistral Large 9.2%, 53.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 against Mistral Large $6.00 per million output tokens, 2.6x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens, Mistral Large 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Kimi K2 0711 | Bars | Mistral Large | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 0 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 14 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 59.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 70.5% | 37.1% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.6% | 17.8% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1275 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1274 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 5.8 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.0 | 122.1 | Kimi K2 0711 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% | 47.7% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.6% | 35.1% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.4% | 3.5% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1257 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1208 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1268 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 62.7% | 9.2% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.2% | 74.4% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 91.0% | 87.2% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| AA Math Index | 57.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1261 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1257 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | 69.7% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 50.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.2% | 63.8% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 84.0% | 76.2% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.4% | 51.5% | Kimi K2 0711 |
| MMLU | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1260 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1255 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1275 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1238 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1050 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1030 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 974 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1018 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1033 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 41.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 60.8% | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 85.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CL-bench | 11.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1265 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1249 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1242 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1284 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1235 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1239 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1242 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1170 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1202 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1325 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1268 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1252 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1157 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1260 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1261 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1261 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1230 | Only Mistral Large measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | MoonshotAI Kimi K2 0711 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 11, 2025 | February 26, 2024 |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.57 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.30 | $6.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2 0711 better than Mistral Large for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Kimi K2 0711 has the edge where output tokens cost 2.6x less, and where the context window is larger, 131K against 128K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 0711 or Mistral Large?
Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens; Mistral Large costs $2.00 and $6.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2 0711 or Mistral Large?
Kimi K2 0711, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2 0711 vs Mistral Large comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2 0711's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.