Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2.6 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 40.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 25.7% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 8% for Kimi K2.6.
  • Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K2.6 specifications
Gemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index58.347.7
Released2026-02-122026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked351

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1509
SciCode—53.5%
WeirdML—55.9%
LMArena Coding—1488
ALE-Bench—1,093

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
Vending-Bench 2—6,205

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
CritPt25.7%8%
ARC-AGI-284.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)—87.2%
ARC-AGI-196%—
Chess Puzzles—26%
EBR-Bench—2.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1470
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—37.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.05

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond—90.8%
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.8%
LMArena Expert—1491

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
LMArena Vision—1283
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%
LMArena Document—1451

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English—1446
LMArena Chinese—1521
LMArena French—1471
LMArena German—1450
LMArena Japanese—1443
LMArena Korean—1427
LMArena Russian—1446
LMArena Spanish—1464

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following—1451

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query—1468

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K2.6
LMArena Text—1455
LMArena Creative Writing—1434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1725
EQ-Bench 4—1202
LMArena Multi-Turn—1453

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#60); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K2.6 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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