Gemma 4 31B vs Kimi K2.5

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 4 31B· Kimi K2.5

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Gemma 4 31B finishes one point ahead overall, 73 to 72. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Gemma 4 31B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 80 against 66.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 74.4% to 81%. Kimi K2.5 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Kimi K2.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.80 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 31B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Kimi K2.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Kimi K2.5.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*$0.50 / $2.80
SpeedN/A45 t/s
TTFTN/A2.38s
Context256K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 31BKimi K2.5
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.050.8%
BrowseComp60.6%
OSWorld-Verified63.3%
Claw-Eval52.9%
QwenClawBench54.3%
QwenWebBench1160
TAU3-Bench65.7%
VITA-Bench36.0%
DeepPlanning14.4%
Toolathlon27.8%
MCP Atlas29.5%
MCP-Tasks59.1%
WideResearch72.7%
BrowseComp-VL42.9%
OSWorld63.3%
Tau2-Airline80.0%
Tau2-Telecom95.9%
PinchBench84.8%
BFCL v468.3%
AndroidWorld43.1%
WebVoyager84.3%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%85%
HumanEval99%
SWE-bench Verified76.8%
SWE-bench Verified*70.8%
LiveCodeBench v685.6%
SWE-bench Pro53.8%
SWE Multilingual73%
SWE-Rebench58.5%
React Native Evals74.9%
NL2Repo32%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%78.5%
MMMU84.3%
OfficeQA Pro69%
RealWorldQA81.0%
OmniDocBench 1.588.8%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.4%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)83.2%
MathVision84.2%
We-Math84.7%
DynaMath84.4%
MStar80.5%
Design2Code91.3%
Flame-VLM-Code88.8%
Vision2Web33.2%
ImageMining24.4%
MMSearch58.7%
MMSearch-Plus25.6%
SimpleVQA71.2%
ChatCVQA77.5%
MMLongBench-Doc58.5%
CC-OCR79.7%
AI2D_TEST90.8%
CountBench94.1%
RefCOCO (avg)87.8%
VideoMMMU86.6%
MLVU (M-Avg)85.0%
Facts-VLM57.8%
V*84.3%
ReasoningKimi K2.5 wins
BBH74.4%81%
MRCRv266.4%70%
MuSR72%
LongBench v261%
AI-Needle70%
KnowledgeKimi K2.5 wins
GPQA84.3%87.6%
MMLU-Pro85.2%87.1%
HLE26.5%30.1%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU77%
GPQA-D86.9%
SuperGPQA69.2%
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)87.1%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval94%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA74%
Instruction Following
IFEval93.9%
IFBench70.2%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX82.3%
NOVA-6356.0%
INCLUDE83.3%
PolyMath43.1%
VWT2k-lite77.6%
MAXIFE72.8%
Mathematics
AIME 202377%
AIME 202479%
AIME 202578%
AIME2695.8%
AIME25 (Arcee)96.3%
HMMT Feb 202373%
HMMT Feb 202475%
HMMT Feb 202574%
HMMT Feb 202595.4%
HMMT Nov 202591.1%
HMMT Feb 202687.1%
MMAnswerBench81.8%
BRUMO 202576%
MATH-50082%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Kimi K2.5?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 72. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 74.4% and 81%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66.6 versus 61.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or Kimi K2.5?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 66.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 66.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Kimi K2.5?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 74.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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