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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendorgooglemoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score56.165.3
Input Price$0.75/M$0.95/M
Output Price$3.75/M$4.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index56.144.5
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 140 141
Code Review 142 144
Code Completion 132 131
Code Refactoring 145 144
Bug Fixing 146 148
Unit Test Generation 130 131
Code Documentation 136 135
Regex Writing 124 126
CI/CD Pipelines 126 127
Frontend Component Design 128 130
Data Analysis 132 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 134
ETL Scripting 135 136
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 128
OCR / Document Parsing 133 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 132
Long-Document Summarization 146 146
Short-Form Summarization 125 126
Blog Post Writing 128 129

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

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