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Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711

MMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512mistralai/ministral-8b-2512VSMMoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711moonshotai/kimi-k2

Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512 wins on more metrics (7 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711
Intelligence Index14.8✓14.4
Coding Index10.010.5✓
GPQA Diamond47%54%✓
Design Arena Elo1112✓1095
Speed (tokens/sec)19✓12
Latency249ms✓1.5s
Input price /M$0.150✓$0.570
Output price /M$0.150✓$2.30
Context window262K✓131K
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