Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) Moonshot AI

41.2

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 42.7 to 25.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Omni-MATH: 36.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 65.4% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
  • Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index32.141.2
Released2024-02-152025-07-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.57
Output $ / M tokens—$2.30
Results tracked4542

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
WeirdML22.2%42.8%
LMArena Coding12941399
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—63.4%
Aider Polyglot—59.1%
GSO—4.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
ALE-Bench—597.5
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Terminal-Bench—35.7%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—59.1%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—
METR Time Horizons—59.2%

Reasoning Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
SimpleBench27.1%26.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts12961384
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73146.01
ForecastBench58.460.2
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—64.4%
DTBench59%—
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—

Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Omni-MATH36.4%65.4%
LMArena Math13151397
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%—
MATH Level 570.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
MMLU-Pro73.7%81.9%
Confabulations13.5%20.4%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%65.3%
LMArena Expert12791365
GPQA Diamond57.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—17.9%
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Vision1161—
Video-MME75%—

Multilingual Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Non-English13121372
LMArena Chinese13311415
LMArena French13021379
LMArena German12861387
LMArena Japanese12921349
LMArena Korean12981325
LMArena Russian13201385
LMArena Spanish13111386

Instruction Following Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
IFEval83.7%85%
LMArena Instruction Following12971348

Long Context Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Longer Query13081353
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—17.6%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
LMArena Text13191380
LMArena Creative Writing13331350
WildBench81.3%86.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn12961371
Short-Story Creative Writing—85.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1666

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?

Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.

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