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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
Vendormoonshotaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.353.7
Input Price$0.95/MFree
Output Price$4.00/MFree
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output235,92932,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.531.3
eqbench76.670.8

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
SQL Generation 141 140
Code Review 144 140
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 144 141
Bug Fixing 148 144
Unit Test Generation 131 130
Code Documentation 135 135
Regex Writing 126 126
CI/CD Pipelines 127 126
Frontend Component Design 130 128
Data Analysis 135 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 134
ETL Scripting 136 133
JSON Extraction 131 132
Bulk Data Labeling 128 130
OCR / Document Parsing 132 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 131
Long-Document Summarization 146 143
Short-Form Summarization 126 127
Blog Post Writing 129 128

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

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