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Gemini 3 Flash PreviewvsKimi K2

Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Google · Moonshot AI
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Google · released 2025-12-17
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
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Scores
34 · 12 core
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI · released 2025-07-11
text
Context
128K
Max out
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Scores
18 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewKimi K2ΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
AIME 202595.2% ↗49.5% ↗+45.7 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)7.8% ↗2% ↗+5.8 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗26.3% ↗+34.8 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)61.6% ↗39.4% ↗+22.2 ptGemini 3 Flash Preview
Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview reports · 22
SWE-bench Verified78% ↗not reported——
GPQA Diamond90.4% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)33.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Elo1472.7 ↗not reported——
BALROG (BALROG)48.1% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)40% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)17.1% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)51.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1272.9 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1438.9 ↗not reported——
MMMU-Pro81.2% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)26% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)95.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified68.7% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)75.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
tau2-bench Airline (Sierra)82.5% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)27.3% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Retail (Sierra)76.8% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Telecom (Sierra)91.2% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.047.6% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)3634.72 ↗not reported——
Only Kimi K2 reports · 14
MMLU-Pronot reported81.1% ↗——
Aider-Polyglotnot reported60% ↗——
GPQA-Diamondnot reported75.1% ↗——
Humanity's Last Exam (Text Only)not reported4.7% ↗——
IFEval (Prompt Strict)not reported89.8% ↗——
LiveCodeBench v6 (Aug 24 - May 25)not reported53.7% ↗——
MMLU-Reduxnot reported92.7% ↗——
SimpleQAnot reported31% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingual (Agentic Coding, single attempt)not reported47.3% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (Agentic Coding, single attempt)not reported65.8% ↗——
Tau2 airlinenot reported56.5% ↗——
Tau2 retailnot reported70.6% ↗——
Tau2 telecomnot reported65.8% ↗——
TerminalBench (Inhouse Framework)not reported30% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 3 Flash Preview minus Kimi K2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

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SpecGemini 3 Flash PreviewKimi K2Edge
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokensGemini 3 Flash Preview
Max output66K tokens——
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Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
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Modalitiestext · vision · audiotextGemini 3 Flash Preview
Released2025-12-172025-07-11—
Cited benchmark scores3418—
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