Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)
In this head-to-head showdown, Google Gemini Flash Latest is more budget-friendly at $1.875/1M per 1M output tokens. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.
2 benchmarks evaluated across capability, speed, and cost
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Moonshot AI frontier flagship reasoning and agent swarm model with 256k context and top-tier SWE-bench coding capability.
Simulate accuracy gains vs added response time & token cost
Reasoning models “think before answering” by generating internal reasoning tokens. Higher effort improves math, coding, and logic accuracy, but increases response delay and token costs.
Single model data
No latency data
$1.875 / 1M output
Relative percentile scores computed across all active models in the benchmark catalog.
Comparing top standard models across 6 key capability dimensions. Tap any spoke or dot to inspect.
Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.
Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy
Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness
Cost per million tokens and max context window length
| Benchmark | Google Gemini Flash Latest | Kimi K3 | Advantage Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preference Elo | — | — | |
| Coding Elo | — | — | |
| LiveBench | — | — | |
| SWE-bench | — | — | |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | |
| Time to first token | — | — | |
| Output speed | — | 68 tok/s | — |
| Input price | $0.375/1M | +$2.625/1M | |
| Output price | $1.875/1M | +$13.125/1M | |
| Context window | — |
Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).
Google Gemini Flash Latest is estimated to save $288.75/month ($3,465/year).
Need SWE-bench on both sides.
Lower output list price ($1.875/1M).
Need TTFT on both sides.
Larger window (1M).
Kimi K3 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.
| Target Workload | Recommended Pick | Evaluation Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Repo / coding agents | insufficient data | Need SWE-bench on both sides. |
| High-volume chat | Google Gemini Flash Latest | Lower output list price ($1.875/1M). |
| Voice / low-latency UI | insufficient data | Need TTFT on both sides. |
| Long-document RAG | Google Gemini Flash Latest | Larger window (1M). |
| Screenshots / vision | Kimi K3 | Kimi K3 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog. |
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