Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K2.5

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 45 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI

47.8

Rank #50 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 45 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Kimi K2.5 in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 31.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 76.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 46.8% for Kimi K2.5.
  • Kimi K2.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K2.5 specifications
Gemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index54.747.8
Released2025-11-182026-01-27
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—262K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$2.25
Results tracked6751

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.1 (#33), Kimi K2.5: 48.7 (#48)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
SWE-bench Verified72.9%73.8%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%70.8%
LMArena WebDev14391436
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%67.3%
WeirdML69.9%45.6%
LMArena Coding14821474
ALE-Bench1,177821.65
SciCode—49%
GSO18.6%—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.5 (#21), Kimi K2.5: 34.0 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
Terminal-Bench69.4%43.2%
Vending-Bench 25,4781,198
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
OSWorld—63.3%
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#28), Kimi K2.5: 31.2 (#74)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
ARC-AGI-231.1%11.8%
SimpleBench76.4%46.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%78.5%
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%69.9%
ARC-AGI-175%65.3%
CritPt6.9%3.1%
Chess Puzzles31%12%
EnigmaEval18.2%3.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14811454
Epoch Capabilities Index152.96148.05
Thematic Generalization—69.4%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 48.8 (#50), Kimi K2.5: 50.3 (#46)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%62.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%92.2%
LMArena Math14751470
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%27.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%4.2%
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.3 (#15), Kimi K2.5: 53.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
GPQA Diamond92.6%87.6%
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%24.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%14.2%
LMArena Expert14751466
SimpleQA Verified—34.3%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#1), Kimi K2.5: 40.4 (#37)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
LMArena Vision13051269
LMArena Document14341430
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.1 (#14), Kimi K2.5: 54.1 (#50)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
LMArena Non-English14741433
LMArena Chinese15221495
LMArena French14921454
LMArena German15171441
LMArena Japanese15131422
LMArena Korean14491412
LMArena Russian14931436
LMArena Spanish14681450

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.4 (#42), Kimi K2.5: 75.5 (#60)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
LMArena Instruction Following14581431
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Kimi K2.5 leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#75), Kimi K2.5: 52.1 (#7)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
CL-bench15.8%19.3%
LMArena Longer Query14721445
Fiction.LiveBench—86.1%
CL-bench Life—13.2%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.6 (#34), Kimi K2.5: 65.3 (#51)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5
LMArena Text14791445
LMArena Creative Writing14821423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251579
LMArena Multi-Turn14841444
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Kimi K2.5?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.7 to 47.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Kimi K2.5 better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.1 versus 48.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K2.5 share?

45 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 has 51.

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