Model comparison
Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 23.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 26.3% for Kimi K2 (Jul 2025).
- Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Moonshot AI | |
| Noometry Index | 54.8 | 41.2 |
| Released | 2025-11-18 | 2025-07-12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 262K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.57 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.30 |
| Results tracked | 67 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.4 (#102)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 74.2% | 63.4% |
| GSO | 18.6% | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | 69.9% | 42.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1399 |
| ALE-Bench | 1,177 | 597.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 59.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1440 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 68.7% | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.83 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 32.4 (#64)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 69.4% | 35.7% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 72.5% | 59.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | 71% | 59.2% |
| GDPval | 40.3% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | 80.5% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 18% | — |
| τ²-bench Retail | 75.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Telecom | 91% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.3% | — |
| BALROG | 58.1% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1207 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,478 | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 23.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 76.4% | 26.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 80.1% | 64.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1480 | 1384 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.92 | 146.01 |
| ForecastBench | 61.2 | 60.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 31.1% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 94.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 75% | — |
| CritPt | 6.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 31% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 18.2% | — |
Math Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 42.7 (#83)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 55.5% | 65.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1476 | 1397 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 37.6% | 21.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 18.8% | 0% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 20% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 37.3 (#157)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 90.3% | 81.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 13.6% | 17.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 80.3% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1475 | 1365 |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.6% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 20.4% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): —
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |
| GeoBench | 84% | — |
| VPCT | 91% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1434 | — |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 49.6 (#130)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1474 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1523 | 1415 |
| LMArena French | 1492 | 1379 |
| LMArena German | 1515 | 1387 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1510 | 1349 |
| LMArena Korean | 1448 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1493 | 1385 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | 1386 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 71.1 (#156)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 87.7% | 85% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1458 | 1348 |
Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 41.2 (#145)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 15.8% | 17.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1471 | 1353 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads
Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Kimi K2 (Jul 2025): 62.3 (#78)
| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Pro | Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1380 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1482 | 1350 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1525 | 1666 |
| WildBench | 85.9% | 86.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | 1371 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 85.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Kimi K2 (Jul 2025)?
Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 3 Pro or Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) better for coding?
Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) share?
38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2 (Jul 2025) has 42.