Kimi K3.1 Provs.Mistral Medium 3.5
Which one is better?
Kimi K3.1 Pro is clearly ahead in the overall index, but costs 1.3 times as much per token.
80
Kimi K3.1 Pro
Rank 10 to 13
below 1
Mistral Medium 3.5
Rank 78 to 92
36
Kimi K3.1 Pro
slow
158
Mistral Medium 3.5
fairly fast
$4
Kimi K3.1 Pro
fairly expensive
$3
Mistral Medium 3.5
fairly expensive
Kimi K3.1 Pro
- Subscription
At Moonshot AI from ≈ €20.14 a month (Kimi Plus, with limited credits). 4 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$2 input, $10 output per 1M tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.5
- Subscription
Free to use at Mistral AI (Mistral Vibe Free), more from €7.13 a month (Mistral Vibe Pro Education). 5 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$1.50 input, $7.50 output per 1M tokens, more expensive since Oct 11, 2026 (before $0.40 and $2).
Overall index with data through Oct 29, 2026 · Prices from Oct 29, 2026 · Speed: measured by Artificial Analysis · Subscriptions as of Oct 24, 2026 · Subscription prices incl. VAT
Where is the difference?
Values from 0 to 100 per task area. We only name a winner when the gap is large enough and there are enough tests.
Kimi K3.1 Pro ahead: 9Mistral Medium 3.5 ahead: 0level: 0too little data: 1of 10 areas
AreaKimi K3.1 ProMistral Medium 3.50 to 100, higher is betterResult
Areas in the overall index
CodingKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 85Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
ReasoningKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 80Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
MathematicsKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 81Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
KnowledgeKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 85Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
AgentsKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 80Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
GeneralKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 74Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
MultimodalKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 75Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
Specialist fields
FinanceKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 62Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
LegalKimi K3.1 Pro aheadKimi K3.1 Pro: 68Mistral Medium 3.5: below 1
Healthonly Mistral Medium 3.5 has a scoreKimi K3.1 Pro: not enough dataMistral Medium 3.5: below 1
Show 1 more areas that do not count toward the overall index
AreaKimi K3.1 ProMistral Medium 3.50 to 100, higher is betterResult
Educationonly Mistral Medium 3.5 has a scoreKimi K3.1 Pro: not enough dataMistral Medium 3.5: below 1
See for yourself: same task, one attempt
The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Kimi K3.1 Pro
Not tested yet
Mistral Medium 3.5
Reasoning (requested): high
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 1, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5
- API model reported in response
- mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5
- Reasoning setting
- high
- Pinned endpoint
- Mistral | mistralai/mistral-medium-3.5-20260430
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
- Response time
- 38.7 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Earlier attempts (1)
- Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)SVG short test
There is no shared test round for this selection. Results from different rounds are not mixed.
All data side by side
The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.
| Metric | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall index0 to 100, higher is better | 80 | below 1 |
| Rank | Rank 10 to 13 of 95 | Rank 78 to 92 of 95 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $2 | $1.50 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $10 | $7.50 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 36 | 158 |
| Technical | ||
| Context windowhow much text the model reads at once | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages | 262,144 tokens≈ 390 A4 pages |
| Knowledge cutoff | n/a | n/a |
| Released | Oct 23, 2026 | Apr 28, 2026 |
| Availability | Active | Active |
| Open weights | n/a | yes |
- Kimi K3.1 Pro, API price listed by Artificial Analysis: $2 input, $10 output, and $0.20 cached input per 1 million tokens. Kimi's official API publishes CNY rates separately. Source
- Kimi K3.1 Pro, Official API pricing: K3.1 Pro: CNY 13 input, CNY 68 output, CNY 13 cache write, and CNY 1.30 cache hit per million tokens. Source
- Kimi K3.1 Pro, Highspeed API pricing: CNY 26 input, CNY 136 output, CNY 26 cache write, and CNY 1.30 cache hit per million tokens. Source
- Kimi K3.1 Pro, International API pricing in USD: The international Kimi platform lists $2 input, $10 output, $2 cache write and $0.20 cache hit per million tokens. Highspeed costs $4/$20/$4/$0.20. Checked October 29, 2026. Separately documented CNY tariffs remain separate observations. Source
Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis
Shared benchmarks
Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.
A: Kimi K3.1 ProB: Mistral Medium 3.5
Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 37.5%Mistral Medium 3.5: 9.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
ProofBench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 91%Mistral Medium 3.5: 9%Vals AIAs of 10/24/2026
Tax Agent BenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 24.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 4.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 84.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 2.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 56.1%Mistral Medium 3.5: 7.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 10%Mistral Medium 3.5: 3.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 81.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 67.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 58%Mistral Medium 3.5: 18.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 27.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 9.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 36.7%Mistral Medium 3.5: 6.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
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Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 66.3%Mistral Medium 3.5: 71.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 64.8%Mistral Medium 3.5: 29.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchCivil Litigation · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 29.6%Mistral Medium 3.5: 11.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchFact-Pattern Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 27.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 2.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchCivil Litigation · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 75.8%Mistral Medium 3.5: 66%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchFact-Pattern Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 68.8%Mistral Medium 3.5: 24.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchConstitutional / Civil Rights · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 31.6%Mistral Medium 3.5: 10.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchForms & Filings · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 13.3%Mistral Medium 3.5: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchConstitutional / Civil Rights · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 74.5%Mistral Medium 3.5: 68.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchForms & Filings · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 61.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 21.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchCriminal · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 28.1%Mistral Medium 3.5: 10.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchNumbers & Calculations · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 30%Mistral Medium 3.5: 9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchCriminal · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 69.7%Mistral Medium 3.5: 60.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchNumbers & Calculations · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 72.9%Mistral Medium 3.5: 45.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchFamily · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 13.6%Mistral Medium 3.5: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchRule & Source Lookup · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 30%Mistral Medium 3.5: 6.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchFamily · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 63.6%Mistral Medium 3.5: 42.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchRule & Source Lookup · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 53.8%Mistral Medium 3.5: 26.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchHealth · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 73.3%Mistral Medium 3.5: 6.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchWeighted Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 63.7%Mistral Medium 3.5: 27.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchHealth · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 90.5%Mistral Medium 3.5: 67.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchImmigration · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 18.2%Mistral Medium 3.5: 9.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchImmigration · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 32.7%Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchOverall · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalKimi K3.1 Pro: 71.4%Mistral Medium 3.5: 63.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
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