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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Kimi-VL

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Mistral
Mistral Medium 3.5
Moonshot AI
Kimi-VL
Overview
CompanyMistralMoonshot AI
Release dateApr 29 2026Apr 2025
Model type
Open sourceYesYes
Specifications
Parameters
128B
16B
Context window
256k
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
77.6%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapKimi-VL shipped 393 days before Mistral Medium 3.5

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

Mistral Medium 3.5 leads Kimi-VL on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Kimi-VL shipped 393 days before Mistral Medium 3.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Mistral Medium 3.5 has 128B parameters, while Kimi-VL has 16B.

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-VL released?
Kimi-VL was released by Moonshot AI on Apr 2025.

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