Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K2.6

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 6 categories and Kimi K2.6 in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 31.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 69.9% for Gemini 3 Pro and 55.9% for Kimi K2.6.
  • Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K2.6 specifications
Gemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index54.847.7
Released2025-11-182026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.95
Output $ / M tokens—$4
Results tracked6751

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
SWE-bench Verified72.9%76.7%
LMArena WebDev14401509
WeirdML69.9%55.9%
LMArena Coding14811488
ALE-Bench1,1771,093
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—53.5%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
Vending-Bench 25,4786,205
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
OSWorld 2.0—4.6%
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
ExploitBench—18.4%
GBAEval—0.9%
GDP.pdf—12%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%87.2%
CritPt6.9%8%
Chess Puzzles31%26%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801470
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92151.05
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
EBR-Bench—2.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—90.9%
LMCA—37.3%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond92.6%90.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%10.8%
LMArena Expert14751491
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—34.9%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
LMArena Vision13051283
LMArena Document14341451
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—3.9%
Furniture Assembly—21.7%

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
LMArena Non-English14741446
LMArena Chinese15231521
LMArena French14921471
LMArena German15151450
LMArena Japanese15101443
LMArena Korean14481427
LMArena Russian14931446
LMArena Spanish14701464

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
LMArena Instruction Following14581451
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
LMArena Longer Query14711468
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.6
LMArena Text14791455
LMArena Creative Writing14821434
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251725
LMArena Multi-Turn14841453
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1202

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Kimi K2.6?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 47.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Kimi K2.6 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (51.6 vs 50.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.

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