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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
Vendor~moonshotaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.16/M$2.00/M
Output Price$10.14/M$12.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,71865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Kimi Latest costs $2.69 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools costs $5.00, so Kimi Latest is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools offers audio input.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, Kimi Latest scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

Kimi Latest was released in April 2026 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools in February 2026.

Pick Kimi Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools if you need audio input.

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?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
SQL Generation 133 132
Code Completion 129 117
Code Documentation 129 129
Regex Writing 117 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 132
JSON Extraction 129 121
Bulk Data Labeling 126 117
Long-Document Summarization 137 136
Short-Form Summarization 121 113
Blog Post Writing 121 120

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

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