Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 54.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #12 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Kimi K3 in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K3 leads 74.0 to 48.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 20% for Gemini 3 Pro and 87% for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K3 specifications
Gemini 3 ProKimi K3
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index54.759.5
Released2025-11-182026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1.05M
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$3
Output $ / M tokens—$15
Results tracked6753

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Kimi K3: 60.6 (#8)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena WebDev14391659
WeirdML69.9%82.6%
LMArena Coding14821509
ALE-Bench1,1771,524
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Kimi K3: 41.8 (#19)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
τ²-bench Banking18%37.1%
Vending-Bench 25,4785,165
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
APEX-Agents—50.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
PostTrainBench—32%
BALROG58.1%—
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Kimi K3: 63.0 (#15)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
ARC-AGI-231.1%60.4%
SimpleBench76.4%60.7%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%93.6%
ARC-AGI-175%94.5%
CritPt6.9%23.4%
Chess Puzzles31%39%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811495
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96157.68
ForecastBench61.261.1
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%

Math Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Kimi K3: 74.0 (#13)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Kimi K3: 63.2 (#19)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
GPQA Diamond92.6%93.1%
LMArena Expert14751520
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Kimi K3: 38.4 (#58)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Kimi K3: 56.5 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena Non-English14741466
LMArena Chinese15221528
LMArena French14921488
LMArena German15171474
LMArena Japanese15131492
LMArena Korean14491465
LMArena Russian14931481
LMArena Spanish14681478

Instruction Following Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Kimi K3: 77.8 (#13)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following14581481
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Kimi K3: 45.8 (#27)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query14721494
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Kimi K3 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Kimi K3: 76.7 (#4)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
LMArena Text14791476
LMArena Creative Writing14821452
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15252082
LMArena Multi-Turn14841488
WildBench85.9%—
EQ-Bench 4—1339

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 54.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Kimi K3 better for coding?

Kimi K3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.6 versus 52.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K3 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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