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Model comparison

Gemma 3 1B vs Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 1B Google

21.1

Rank #353 Reported

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

48.1

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 1B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.5 leads 53.6 to 7.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.1% for Gemma 3 1B and 92.2% for Kimi K2.5.

Side by side

Gemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index21.148.1
Released2025-03-122026-01-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$2.25
Results tracked451

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 48.8 (#53)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
SWE-bench Verified—73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—70.8%
LMArena WebDev—1437
SWE-bench Multilingual—67.3%
SciCode—49%
WeirdML—45.6%
LMArena Coding—1474
ALE-Bench—821.65

Agentic & Tool Use Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 13.7 (#152), Kimi K2.5: 34.2 (#48)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench—43.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard7.2%—
OSWorld—63.3%
Vending-Bench 2—1,198

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 19.2 (#264), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#80)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
Chess Puzzles0%12%
ARC-AGI-2—11.8%
SimpleBench—46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—78.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—69.9%
ARC-AGI-1—65.3%
CritPt—3.1%
EnigmaEval—3.4%
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1453
Epoch Capabilities Index—148.03

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 10.2 (#316), Kimi K2.5: 51.8 (#53)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%92.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—62.3%
LMArena Math—1470
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—27.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemma 3 1B: 7.0 (#314), Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#56)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond19.9%87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—24.4%
SimpleQA Verified—34.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
LMArena Expert—1466

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 41.1 (#39)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
LMArena Vision—1269
LMArena Document—1430

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 53.9 (#53)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English—1433
LMArena Chinese—1495
LMArena French—1454
LMArena German—1441
LMArena Japanese—1421
LMArena Korean—1410
LMArena Russian—1435
LMArena Spanish—1450

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 75.3 (#64)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following—1431

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
Fiction.LiveBench—86.1%
CL-bench—19.3%
CL-bench Life—13.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1445

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemma 3 1B: —, Kimi K2.5: 65.1 (#53)

BenchmarkGemma 3 1BKimi K2.5
LMArena Text—1445
LMArena Creative Writing—1423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579
LMArena Multi-Turn—1444

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 1B better than Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 21.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 1B and Kimi K2.5 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 1B has 4 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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