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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K3 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 63.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 84.6% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 60.4% for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index58.359.5
Released2026-02-122026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1.05M
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$3
Output $ / M tokens—$15
Results tracked353

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
LMArena WebDev—1654
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
WeirdML—82.6%
LMArena Coding—1508
ALE-Bench—1,524

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
APEX-Agents—50.6%
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—32%
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
Vending-Bench 2—5,165

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14), Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
ARC-AGI-284.6%60.4%
ARC-AGI-196%94.5%
CritPt25.7%23.4%
SimpleBench—60.7%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.6%
Chess Puzzles—39%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
Epoch Capabilities Index—157.45
ForecastBench—61.1

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—72.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—39%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—87.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.2%
ProofBench—87%
LMArena Math—1491

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
GPQA Diamond—93.1%
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
LMArena Expert—1521

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
LMArena Non-English—1466
LMArena Chinese—1529
LMArena French—1491
LMArena German—1488
LMArena Japanese—1487
LMArena Korean—1458
LMArena Russian—1482
LMArena Spanish—1472

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following—1483

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query—1494

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3 Deep Think: —, Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Deep ThinkKimi K3
LMArena Text—1476
LMArena Creative Writing—1454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2082
EQ-Bench 4—1339
LMArena Multi-Turn—1488

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K3 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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