Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 50x 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
30× cheaper
Output
$0.30
50× cheaper
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 30× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 uses 77.9x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
50%Vocabulary58%
17wSentence Length21w
0.56Hedging0.46
4.3Bold3.6
5.7Lists3.4
0.00Emoji0.78
0.05Headings0.89
0.34Transitions0.17
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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