Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Kimi K2.6
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Kimi K2.6 by Moonshot AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K2.6
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K2.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 13x 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
9.5× cheaper
Output
$0.30
13× cheaper
Kimi K2.6
Input
$0.95
Output
$4.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 9.5× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
38%
Kimi K2.6 uses 3.4x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Kimi K2.6
50%Vocabulary57%
17wSentence Length16w
0.56Hedging0.37
4.3Bold4.3
5.7Lists2.0
0.00Emoji0.03
0.05Headings0.53
0.34Transitions0.16
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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