Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Kimi K2.5 Instant

Kimi K2.5 Instant has enough public results to be ranked (#92); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.5

Unranked Sparse

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

42.9

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 28.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 Instant has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K2.5 Instant specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index58.542.9
Released2026-02-12—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked318

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.3 (#95)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena WebDev—1404
LMArena Coding—1483

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 28.5 (#88)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
ARC-AGI-196%—
CritPt25.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1443

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 36.6 (#105)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Math—1443

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#121)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Expert—1438

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.5 (#47)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Vision—1254

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.2 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English—1406
LMArena Chinese—1450
LMArena French—1403
LMArena German—1413
LMArena Korean—1378
LMArena Russian—1404
LMArena Spanish—1448

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.5 (#61)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following—1430

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.8 (#82)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query—1435

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.8 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Text—1420
LMArena Creative Writing—1379
LMArena Multi-Turn—1427

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Kimi K2.5 Instant?

Kimi K2.5 Instant has enough public results to be ranked (#92); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K2.5 Instant share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18.

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