Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Kimi K2.5 Instant

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Kimi K2.5 Instant score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

43.6

Rank #89 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 4 categories and Kimi K2.5 Instant in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 47.6 to 39.4.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Kimi K2.5 Instant specifications
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
ProviderGoogleMoonshot AI
Noometry Index43.543.6
Released2026-04-02—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0675—
Output $ / M tokens$0.23—
Results tracked2818

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena WebDev13591404
LMArena Coding14471484
SciCode40%—
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench927.17—

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Hard Prompts14391443
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench74.9%—
LMCA29.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.85—

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Math14701442
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202582.2%—

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Expert14471440
GPQA Diamond73.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Vision12601254

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Non-English14211406
LMArena Chinese14951449
LMArena French14601403
LMArena Russian14341404
LMArena Spanish14171447
LMArena German—1413
LMArena Korean—1378

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Instruction Following14201430

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Longer Query14281435

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITKimi K2.5 Instant
LMArena Text14341420
LMArena Creative Writing14021381
LMArena Multi-Turn14411427
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1305—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than Kimi K2.5 Instant?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Kimi K2.5 Instant score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 43.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Kimi K2.5 Instant better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Kimi K2.5 Instant share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18.

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