Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Kimi Linear
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Moonshot AI Kimi Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | |
| Release date | Mar 25 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 48B |
| 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% | — |
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 190 days before Kimi Linear | |
Which is better: Gemini 2.5 Pro or Kimi Linear?
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi Linear don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemini 2.5 Pro shipped 190 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary, while Kimi Linear is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi Linear don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
Kimi Linear was released by Moonshot AI on Oct 2025.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is a proprietary model released by Google. Kimi Linear is an open weight model released by Moonshot AI.
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