Google Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Moonshot AI Kimi-VL — side-by-side specs.
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Moonshot AI Kimi-VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Moonshot AI | |
| Release date | Mar 25 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 16B |
Context window | — | — |
| 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. | 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 7 days before Kimi-VL | |
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemini 2.5 Pro shipped 7 days before Kimi-VL, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Kimi-VL is an open-source / open-weight model; Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi-VL don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.