Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Pixtral Large

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

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Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #257 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 60.2 to 32.9.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Pixtral Large specifications
Kimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
ProviderMoonshot AIMistral AI
Noometry Index45.431.7
Released2025-11-062024-11-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked213

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Pixtral Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena WebDev1322—
LMArena Coding1454—

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
Chess Puzzles20%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1428—

Math Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Pixtral Large: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%—
LMArena Math1429—

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
GPQA Diamond84.2%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena Vision—1089

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Pixtral Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1398—
LMArena Chinese1457—
LMArena French1425—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1356—
LMArena Korean1329—
LMArena Russian1390—
LMArena Spanish1407—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Pixtral Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena Instruction Following1403—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Pixtral Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboPixtral Large
LMArena Text1415—
LMArena Creative Writing1373—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—988
LMArena Multi-Turn1414—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Pixtral Large?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 31.7 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Pixtral Large share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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