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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-28.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendorgooglemoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score83.379.3
Input Price$1.50/M$0.65/M
Output Price$9.00/M$2.72/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536262,144
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index82.873.0
ai_index_agentic61.849.9
ai_index_coding100.0100.0
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 168 169
Code Review 164 165
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 162 161
Bug Fixing 176 176
Unit Test Generation 152 153
Code Documentation 141 142
Regex Writing 133 136
CI/CD Pipelines 143 143
Frontend Component Design 145 146
Data Analysis 167 167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 152
JSON Extraction 138 147
Bulk Data Labeling 124 134
OCR / Document Parsing 146 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 145
Long-Document Summarization 157 158
Short-Form Summarization 121 132
Blog Post Writing 138 140

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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