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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Vendormoonshotaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.366.5
Input Price$0.95/M$2.00/M
Output Price$4.00/M$12.00/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output235,92965,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.549.0
eqbench76.674.3

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
SQL Generation 141 143
Code Review 144 150
Code Completion 131 120
Code Refactoring 144 153
Bug Fixing 148 154
Unit Test Generation 131 135
Code Documentation 135 139
Regex Writing 126 125
CI/CD Pipelines 127 131
Frontend Component Design 130 130
Data Analysis 135 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 139
ETL Scripting 136 142
JSON Extraction 131 121
Bulk Data Labeling 128 117
OCR / Document Parsing 132 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 135
Long-Document Summarization 146 154
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 129 131

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

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