Comparing 2 models

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Kimi K3

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Kimi K3 are not yet ranked on the same task, so compare the specifications below. Kimi K3 costs 6.6x less per input token. Only Kimi K3 has open weights for self-hosting.

  • Choose Kimi K3 for you need to self-host.

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

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Model 1Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Model 2Kimi K3
Best for
Business Writing (#3)
Best Local LLM for Coding (#2)
Provider
google
moonshotai
Context
1.0MBest
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$2
$0.30Best
Output / 1M
$12
$11.94Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Feb 18, 2026
Jul 16, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewKimi K3Source
Design Arena Coding1233 Elo1363 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Full-stack Agent1068 Elo1315 Elosource · 2026-10-14
Design Arena UI1226 Elo1346 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Web-app Agent1119 Elo1285 Elosource · 2026-10-14
Design Arena Website1235 Elo1337 Elosource · 2026-10-16
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)59.6% ± 2.972.2% ± 2.7source · 2026-06-11
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)94.4% ± 1.693.1% ± 1.5source · 2026-08-06
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)94.1% ± 1.793.1% ± 1.5source · 2026-02-20
LiveBench Agentic Coding44.1%62.2%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Coding76.5%81.5%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Data Analysis78.5%78.7%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Instruction Following79.1%71.4%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Language85.4%85.5%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Math91.0%84.4%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Reasoning84%90.7%source · 2026-10-16
LMArena Agent-3.51.9source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery-23.34.4source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability-6.20.5source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome-10.16.3source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination-0.20.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1482 Elo1456 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1466 Elo1483 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1483 Elo1493 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1485 Elo1494 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1487 Elo1487 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1472 Elo1471 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena WebDev1447 Elo1655 Elosource · 2026-10-13
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web1481 Elo1579 Elosource · 2026-10-09
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)95.6% ± 3.197.2% ± 1.1source · 2026-08-06
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)95.6% ± 3.197.2% ± 1.1source · 2026-02-20
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)73.5% ± 1.450.6% ± 1.6source · 2026-08-10
tau2-bench (1.0.1)26%37.1%source · 2026-05-05

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.