Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 50.9 to 32.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 83.1% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo.
- Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 45.4 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | 2025-11-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1454 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1322 |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1428 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1351 | 1429 |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 84.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | 1439 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1398 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1390 | 1425 |
| LMArena German | 1354 | 1390 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | 1356 |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | 1329 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1390 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1407 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1403 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | 1415 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1415 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1373 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1414 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better for coding?
Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21.