Model comparison

Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

41.2

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.0 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 42.7 to 9.3.
  • Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.0 Pro and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) specifications
Gemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index27.341.2
Released2023-12-132025-07-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.57
Output $ / M tokens—$2.30
Results tracked2442

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Coding11081399
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—63.4%
Aider Polyglot—59.1%
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—42.8%
ALE-Bench—597.5
HumanEval+55.5%—
MBPP+61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.0 Pro: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Terminal-Bench—35.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—59.1%
METR Time Horizons—59.2%

Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts11091384
Epoch Capabilities Index117.04146.01
SimpleBench—26.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—64.4%
DTBench45.9%—
ForecastBench—60.2

Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Math11321397
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
Omni-MATH—65.4%
MATH Level 511.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Expert10591365
GPQA Diamond34%—
MMLU-Pro—81.9%
Confabulations—20.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—17.9%
GPQA (HELM)—65.3%
MMLU70%—

Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Non-English11381372
LMArena Chinese11241415
LMArena French11451379
LMArena German11251387
LMArena Japanese10231349
LMArena Russian11861385
LMArena Spanish11191386
LMArena Korean—1325

Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following11141348
IFEval—85%

Long Context Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Longer Query11321353
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—17.6%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProKimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Text11491380
LMArena Creative Writing11311350
LMArena Multi-Turn11391371
Short-Story Creative Writing—85.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1666
WildBench—86.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.0 Pro or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.0 Pro and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.

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