Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K2.5 Instant

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

43.6

Rank #89 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Kimi K2.5 Instant in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 40.2.
  • Kimi K2.5 Instant has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K2.5 Instant specifications
Gemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index54.843.6
Released2025-11-18—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6718

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena WebDev14401404
LMArena Coding14811484
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Kimi K2.5 Instant: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
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%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Hard Prompts14801443
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92—
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Math14761442
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Expert14751440
GPQA Diamond92.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Vision13051254
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English14741406
LMArena Chinese15231449
LMArena French14921403
LMArena German15151413
LMArena Korean14481378
LMArena Russian14931404
LMArena Spanish14701447
LMArena Japanese1510—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following14581430
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query14711435
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Text14791420
LMArena Creative Writing14821381
LMArena Multi-Turn14841427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Kimi K2.5 Instant?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 42.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18.

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