0 vs 2 benchmarks won
Mistral Mistral Small | Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Mistral | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Feb 26 2024 | Jan 27 2026 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | 87.6% |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | 76.8% |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Mistral Small shipped 701 days before Kimi K2.5 | |
Kimi K2.5 leads Mistral Small on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Mistral Small shipped 701 days before Kimi K2.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2.5 is an open-source / open-weight model; Mistral Small is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.