Gemini 3 Pro vs Kimi K3

  • Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K3 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1475).
  • On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3 Pro wins 2 and Kimi K3 wins 5 (Gemini 3 Pro: MedCode, MMLU-Pro).
LMArena text rating over time
14601473148514981510Nov 25Feb 26May 26Jul 26Oct 26
LatestGemini 3 Pro 1480Kimi K3 1475

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3 Pro
  • Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProKimi K3
The model
LabGoogleMoonshot AI
Released—2026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Input, per 1M tokens—$0.24
Output, per 1M tokens—$10.80
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1480#21 of 3511475#25 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1440#80 of 1241655#17 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1305#16 of 146—
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1481#55 of 3461508#16 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1476#38 of 3391493#20 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1483#13 of 3491456#28 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1480#39 of 3511495#17 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1458#43 of 3511485#16 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score—52.95%#20 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal—17.17%#34 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects76.40%#37 of 8593.40%#8 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works14.30%#91 of 11584.97%#16 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests—28.59%#23 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination86.41%#23 of 14387.19%#18 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools—60.01%#21 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks—57.95%#11 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions—33.37%#15 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks—71.72%#10 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research—46.15%#16 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes52.20%#14 of 10749.36%#23 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias96.03%#8 of 92—
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not91.67%#19 of 13892.93%#12 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering90.10%#7 of 13887.97%#22 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad96.68%#4 of 96—
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text87.51%#14 of 9388.15%#11 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal—1.43%#38 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro or Kimi K3?

Gemini 3 Pro and Kimi K3 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1475). On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3 Pro wins 2 and Kimi K3 wins 5 (Gemini 3 Pro: MedCode, MMLU-Pro).

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