Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Kimi K2
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Kimi K2 by Moonshot AI, tested across 55 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K2
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K2 has the edge — bigger model tier.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 7.7x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
5.7× cheaper
Output
$0.30
7.7× cheaper
Kimi K2
Input
$0.57
Output
$2.30
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 5.7× input, 7.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
26%
Kimi K2 uses 68.5x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Kimi K2
50%Vocabulary63%
17wSentence Length19w
0.56Hedging0.35
4.3Bold4.2
5.7Lists3.6
0.00Emoji0.68
0.05Headings0.61
0.34Transitions0.06
Based on 21 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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