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Gemini 3 Flash PreviewvsKimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 leads 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 5
Kimi K2.6 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
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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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 13 · 9 core
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · released 2026-04-20
textvision
- Context
- 256K
- Max out
- —
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 14 · 8 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 5 only Gemini 3 Flash Preview · 8 only Kimi K2.6| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.4% ↗ | 90.8% ↗epoch | -0.4 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 17.1% ↗epoch | 25.6% ↗epoch | -8.5 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 51.2% ↗epoch | 57.2% ↗epoch | -6 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 95.6% ↗epoch | 96.1% ↗epoch | -0.5 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 68.7% ↗ | 34.9% ↗epoch | +33.8 pt | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 75.4% ↗epoch | 76.7% ↗epoch | -1.3 pt | Kimi K2.6 |
| Only Gemini 3 Flash Preview reports · 5 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 78% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 95.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 33.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 47.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Kimi K2.6 reports · 8 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 95.8% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1454.9 ↗ | — | — |
| Kimi Claw 24/7 Bench | not reported | 42.9% ↗ | — | — |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | not reported | 50.9% ↗ | — | — |
| MCP-Atlas | not reported | 69.4% ↗ | — | — |
| MCPMark-Verified | not reported | 72.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MLS-Bench-Lite | not reported | 26.7% ↗ | — | — |
| ProgramBench | not reported | 48.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 K2.6 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
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | Kimi K2.6 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 256K tokens | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Max output | 66K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | — | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | — | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision · audio | text · vision | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
| Released | 2025-12-17 | 2026-04-20 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 13 | 14 | — |
Reliability
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