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K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B (IFM) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 10 September 2026

As of 10 September 2026, Mistral Medium 3.5 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#59 vs #61); and K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B if…

  • you want to self-host: K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B ships open weights while Mistral Medium 3.5 is api only.
  • you want the more recently listed model — K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B was listed 1 September 2026, Mistral Medium 3.5 30 April 2026.

Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #59 against #61 (55.9 vs 55.2 points).
  • you want provider choice — 1 listed API providers against 0.

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Mistral Medium 3.5: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Mistral Medium 3.5
FieldK2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4BIFMMistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
ModelCap Index position#61#59
Index score55.255.9
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$1.50
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$7.50
Context window— tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—210K
API providers listed01
Weight accessOpen weightsAPI only
Input modalitiesTextText, Image, File
First listed1 September 202630 April 2026
PublisherIFMMistral AI

Evidence: global-corpus-prior over 183 held-out anchors (59%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 8 rows (41%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 8 rows; optimism haircut 1.82 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 2.4 toward the measured corpus · 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Public benchmark boards where K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Mistral Medium 3.5 has a published result
BoardK2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4BMistral Medium 3.5Leads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)—14791468–1490Only one result
LMArena AgentLMArena—-9.3%-10.9%–-7.8%Only one result
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis—14.9intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecifiedOnly one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis—50.6%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—94.2%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—13.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Mistral Medium 3.5":reasoning=trueOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Mistral Medium 3.5: common questions

Is K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 10 September 2026: #59 against #61. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B cheaper than Mistral Medium 3.5?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Mistral Medium 3.5?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Mistral Medium 3.5 open-weight models?

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B: Open weights. Mistral Medium 3.5: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Mistral Medium 3.5?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and 1 for Mistral Medium 3.5, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 10 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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