Side-by-side comparison of Kimi-K2.6 (Moonshot AI · China) and Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi-K2.6 is rated conditional; Mistral Small 4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Kimi-K2.6 is "Modified MIT", Mistral Small 4 is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, Kimi-K2.6 ships under a Modified MIT licence: identical to standard MIT for almost all deployers, with an additional UI-attribution requirement only for products exceeding 100M monthly active users or USD 20M monthly revenue. The genuine EU-readiness concerns are the China-based vendor and the absence of any training-data disclosure rather than the licence itself. | EU-ready Unified model folding Instruct, reasoning (Magistral) and code (Devstral) into a single 119B MoE under Apache 2.0. 6.5B active params, 256K context, 24 languages, toggleable reasoning effort. Strongest permissive EU option at this scale. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Attribution at scale | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 54/100 | 19/100 |
| Speed | — | 147 tok/s |
| Blended price | $1.71/M | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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