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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Kimi-Dev

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Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi-Dev
Overview
CompanyMistralMoonshot AI
Release dateApr 29 2026Jun 2025
Model type
Open sourceYesYes
Specifications
Parameters
128B
72B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi-Dev shipped 332 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better: Mistral Medium 3.5 or Kimi-Dev?

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Kimi-Dev on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi-Dev shipped 332 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while Kimi-Dev has 72B.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Mistral Medium 3.5 released?
Mistral Medium 3.5 was released by Mistral on Apr 29 2026.
When was Kimi-Dev released?
Kimi-Dev was released by Moonshot AI on Jun 2025.

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