Mistral Devstral Medium vs Kimi K3
Compare Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI against Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K3
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Medium is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
7.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
7.5× cheaper
Kimi K3
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 7.5× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
38%
Kimi K3 uses 77.9x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Medium
Kimi K3
50%Vocabulary58%
17wSentence Length21w
0.56Hedging0.46
4.5Bold3.6
5.3Lists3.4
0.00Emoji0.78
0.19Headings0.89
0.32Transitions0.17
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
FAQ
