Side-by-side comparison of Kimi K2 Instruct (Moonshot AI · China) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Kimi K2 Instruct is rated conditional; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on commercial use: Kimi K2 Instruct is "Yes", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Permitted (revenue cap)".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 1T-parameter MoE (32B active) tuned for agentic and tool-use workflows. Modified MIT permits commercial use. Same Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations as DeepSeek and Qwen. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-16 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Modified MIT | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Yes | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | — |
| Speed | 34 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $1.04/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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