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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

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
Vendor~moonshotaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-74.7
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-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-76.7
ai_index_agentic-35.3
ai_index_coding-100.0
eqbench-64.7

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 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 offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi Latest scores higher on 3 (Code Completion, Bulk Data Labeling, Short-Form Summarization), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

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

Pick Kimi Latest if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview if you need audio input 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?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
SQL Generation 133 168
Code Review 132 168
Code Completion 129 120
Code Refactoring 136 168
Bug Fixing 136 177
Unit Test Generation 124 154
Code Documentation 129 144
Regex Writing 117 133
CI/CD Pipelines 120 145
Frontend Component Design 122 145
Data Analysis 124 164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 155
ETL Scripting 128 156
JSON Extraction 129 137
Bulk Data Labeling 126 123
OCR / Document Parsing 131 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 147
Long-Document Summarization 137 163
Short-Form Summarization 121 121
Blog Post Writing 121 140

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

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