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Google: Gemini Pro Latest vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

Google: Gemini Pro Latest MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Vendor~googlemoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-64.3
Input Price$2.00/M$0.53/M
Output Price$10.00/M$3.33/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,71865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-62.9
eqbench-55.2

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Kimi K2.5 costs $1.36 and Gemini Pro Latest costs $4.50, so Kimi K2.5 is about 3.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Gemini Pro Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Kimi K2.5.

Only Gemini Pro Latest offers audio input and video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi K2.5 on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Gemini Pro Latest was released in April 2026 and Kimi K2.5 in January 2026.

Pick Gemini Pro Latest if you need long documents, audio input or video input; pick Kimi K2.5 if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini Pro LatestMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
SQL Generation 132 142
Code Review 132 145
Code Completion 117 131
Code Refactoring 136 145
Bug Fixing 136 149
Unit Test Generation 124 132
Code Documentation 129 135
Regex Writing 117 127
CI/CD Pipelines 120 128
Frontend Component Design 122 131
Data Analysis 124 136
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 133
ETL Scripting 128 136
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 118 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 136 146
Short-Form Summarization 113 127
Blog Post Writing 120 130

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

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