# Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Kimi K2.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi K2.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-2-5-pro-vs-kimi-k2-5
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 2.5 Pro only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K2.5 leads overall 52.85 to 50.17.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 56.4 for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 84.4 for Kimi K2.5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) in Mathematics, with scores of 14.138% and 27.900%.
- Kimi K2.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 50.17 | 52.85 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 45 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.25 / $10.00 | $0.60 / $3.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 25.4 (Estimated · #91/117)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 36.5 (Estimated · #61/117)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | 42.01% | 45.88% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 52.3% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 54.3% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 14.4% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 27.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 29.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.0% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 8.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 24.4 (Supported · #108/143)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.8 (Estimated · #66/143)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 63.8% | 76.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Vibe Code Bench | 0.40% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified* | Coming soon | 70.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 50.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 58.5% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 77.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 69.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 71.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 66.8 (#25/50)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 44.1 (Supported · #80/169)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #71/169)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 83% | 87.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE | 18.8% | 30.1% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.6% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 69.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 56.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 56.4 (#76/124)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/124)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 2.5 Pro public-lane score: 35.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (#4/7)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Kimi K2.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 14.138% | 27.900% | Kimi K2.5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | 4.200% | Kimi K2.5 |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 96.1% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | Coming soon | 96.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 95.4% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 91.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Kimi K2.5?

Kimi K2.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 2.5 Pro and Kimi K2.5?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 56.4 for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 84.4 for Kimi K2.5.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 2.5 Pro cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 2.5 Pro currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K2.5 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K2.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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