# Gemini 3 Deep Think vs Kimi K2.6

> Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#52); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-3-deep-think-vs-kimi-k2-6
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Gemini 3 Deep Think scores higher in 1 category and Kimi K2.6 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 39.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is CritPt: 25.7% for Gemini 3 Deep Think and 8% for Kimi K2.6.
- Kimi K2.6 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 58.5 | 47.5 |
| Rank | — | 52 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.95 |
| Output $/M | — | $4 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 50.5 (#41)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1509 |
| SciCode | — | 53.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 55.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1488 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,093 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 21.8 (#128)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 4.6% |
| ExploitBench | — | 18.4% |
| GBAEval | — | 0.9% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 12% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 6,205 |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11)
- Kimi K2.6: 39.6 (#51)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 25.7% | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 84.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 87.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 96% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 2.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1470 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 18% |
| DTBench | — | 90.9% |
| LMCA | — | 37.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 151.03 |

## Math

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 56.8 (#34)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 57.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 25.6% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 72.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 96.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 16% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1475 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 53.9 (#48)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 90.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 34.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1491 |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 31.8 (#95)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1282 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 3.9% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 21.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1451 |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 55.1 (#35)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1446 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1521 |
| LMArena French | — | 1471 |
| LMArena German | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1442 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1446 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1463 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 76.5 (#40)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1451 |

## Long Context

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#50)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1468 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 3 Deep Think: —
- Kimi K2.6: 68.7 (#25)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Kimi K2.6 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1455 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1434 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1725 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1202 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1453 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 3 Deep Think better than Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#52); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Deep Think and Kimi K2.6 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.6 has 51.