Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 Comparison

Comparing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is better at 4 benchmarks (AIME 2025, GPQA, Humanity's Last Exam, SWE-Bench Verified).

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs less

For input processing, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ($0.10/1M tokens) is 4.7x cheaper than Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 ($0.47/1M tokens).

For output processing, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ($0.40/1M tokens) is 5.0x cheaper than Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 ($2.00/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Input tokens$0.10

Output tokens$0.40

Best providerGoogle

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Input tokens$0.47

Output tokens$2.00

Best providerDeepinfra

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite accepts 1,048,576 input tokens compared to Kimi K2-Thinking-0905's 262,144 tokens. Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 can generate longer responses up to 262,144 tokens, while Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is limited to 65,536 tokens.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Input1,048,576 tokens

Output65,536 tokens

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Input262,144 tokens

Output262,144 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite supports multimodal inputs, whereas Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 does not.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, while Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

Open weights

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite was released on 2025-06-17, while Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 was released on 2025-09-05.

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is 3 months newer than Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Jun 17, 2025

9 months ago

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Sep 5, 2025

6 months ago

2mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-01-01, while Kimi K2-Thinking-0905's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite's training data extends to 2025-01-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Kimi K2-Thinking-0905's cutoff date.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Jan 2025

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

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Provider Availability

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is available from Google. Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 is available from DeepInfra, Novita, Fireworks. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.