Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Kimi K3: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash is developed by Google, while Kimi K3 comes from Moonshot AI. Both were released in July 2026. Kimi K3 has a published size of about 2.8 trillion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3.6 Flash.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Kimi K3 leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on DeepSWE 1.1, where Kimi K3 scores 69.0% against 49.0%; Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Kimi K3 scores 88.3% against 78.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3.6 Flash sits at 68.0% and Kimi K3 at 67.8%.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is the cheaper API at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than Kimi K3 at $3 and $15. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Moonshot AI | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | July 16, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2.8T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 1.0M |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $3.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | $15.00 |
| Average Score | 68.0% | 67.8% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 49.0% | 69.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.0% | 88.3% |
| CharXiv-R | 89.0% | 91.3% |
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Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.7, Kimi K3 — 0.7.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is 2.0x cheaper: input $1.50/1M vs $3.00/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 7/21/2026 and 7/16/2026.
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