# Kimi K3 vs Mistral Large 3

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Kimi K3: $4.109999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Mistral Large 3: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Kimi K3: open weights.

Mistral Large 3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in General LLM at #13 against #132.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in Reasoning at #7 against #134.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in Coding › Web dev at #12 against #118.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in Long context at #8 against #136.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Mistral Large 3 in Factuality at #22 against #96.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Mistral Large 3 is ranked #96 in Factuality (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).