Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 10 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 32.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified (bash only): 13.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 70.8% for Kimi K2.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Kimi K2.5 specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index35.148.1
Released2024-12-062026-01-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$2.25
Results tracked5451

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315), Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%70.8%
WeirdML25.8%45.6%
LMArena Coding13501474
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
Aider Polyglot38.2%—
LMArena WebDev—1437
SWE-bench Multilingual—67.3%
SciCode—49%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
LiveBench Coding63.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—
ALE-Bench—821.65

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92), Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench—43.2%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—
OSWorld—63.3%
Vending-Bench 2—1,198

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
ARC-AGI-21.3%11.8%
SimpleBench31.1%46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%78.5%
EnigmaEval1.1%3.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461453
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36148.03
NYT Connections (extended)—69.9%
ARC-AGI-1—65.3%
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%—
DTBench63.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%—
LiveBench66.9%—

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146), Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%92.2%
LMArena Math13521470
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%27.9%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—62.3%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
LiveBench Math75.8%—
MATH Level 582.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213), Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond64.1%87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%24.4%
LMArena Expert13391466
SimpleQA Verified—34.3%
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79), Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
LMArena Vision11581269
GeoBench77%—
LMArena Document—1430

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149), Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English13421433
LMArena Chinese13731495
LMArena French13911454
LMArena German13531441
LMArena Japanese12941421
LMArena Korean13131410
LMArena Russian13511435
LMArena Spanish13631450

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97), Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following13361431
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%—
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203), Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%86.1%
LMArena Longer Query13441445
CL-bench—19.3%
CL-bench Life—13.2%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190), Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Kimi K2.5
LMArena Text13541445
LMArena Creative Writing13401423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281579
LMArena Multi-Turn13501444
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%—
WildBench80%—
LiveBench Language51.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.8 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Kimi K2.5 share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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