Google Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (0905) — side-by-side specs.
Google Gemini 1.0 Pro | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 (0905) | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | |
| Release date | Dec 13 2023 | Sep 5 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 65.8% |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 75.1% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Gemini 1.0 Pro shipped 632 days before Kimi K2 (0905) | |
Gemini 1.0 Pro and Kimi K2 (0905) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemini 1.0 Pro shipped 632 days before Kimi K2 (0905), so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi K2 (0905) is an open-source / open-weight model; Gemini 1.0 Pro is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 1.0 Pro and Kimi K2 (0905) don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.