# Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Kimi K3

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite leads Kimi K3 in 0 of 7 shared categories.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: $0.85 per 1M blended tokens.

Kimi K3: $4.109999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: closed weights.

Kimi K3: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in General LLM at #13 against #63.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Reasoning at #7 against #67.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Science at #17 against #64.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Long context at #8 against #65.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Vision at #22 against #31.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Factuality at #22 against #64.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in Abstraction (ARC) at #8 against #42.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is ranked #31 in Vision (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).