Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Pro vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Pro scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads 41.2 to 29.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 41.7% for Gemini 2.0 Pro and 66.7% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | |
| Noometry Index | 39.1 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2025-02-05 | 2025-07-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.57 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.30 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 35.6% | 59.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 63.4% |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 42.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1399 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 597.5 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi 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 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.06 | 146.01 |
| SimpleBench | — | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 64.4% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 60.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1384 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 68% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.2 |
| LiveBench | 65.1% | — |
Math Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 65.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 71% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1397 |
| MATH Level 5 | 83.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 18.4% | 20.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1365 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Pro: —, Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1415 |
| LMArena French | — | 1379 |
| LMArena German | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1386 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Pro leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 83.4% | — |
| IFEval | — | 85% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1348 |
Long Context Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 41.7% | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1353 |
Writing & Preference Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1666 |
| WildBench | — | 86.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1371 |
| LiveBench Language | 44.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.2 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Pro or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?
Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Pro and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.