Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Kimi K2 Thinking
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Moonshot AI Kimi K2 Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | |
| Release date | Mar 25 2025 | Nov 6 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 1T |
Context window | — | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 20% | — |
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. | 59.6% | 71.3%Best |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 86.4% | — |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Gemini 2.5 Pro shipped 226 days before Kimi K2 Thinking | |
Which is better: Gemini 2.5 Pro or Kimi K2 Thinking?
Kimi K2 Thinking leads Gemini 2.5 Pro on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Gemini 2.5 Pro shipped 226 days before Kimi K2 Thinking, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary, while Kimi K2 Thinking is open weight.
On SWE-Bench Verified, Kimi K2 Thinking leads at 71.3% vs Gemini 2.5 Pro at 59.6%.
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
Kimi K2 Thinking was released by Moonshot AI on Nov 6 2025.
Kimi K2 Thinking leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Gemini 2.5 Pro 59.6% vs Kimi K2 Thinking 71.3%.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is a proprietary model released by Google. Kimi K2 Thinking is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI.
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