Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) vs Kimi K3
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) costs 5.0x less per output token than Kimi K3 ($3.00 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $3.00
- Coding
- 62.3
- Overall
- 43.6
- Output $/M
- $15.00
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) or Kimi K3: which to pick
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($3.00 vs $15.00 per million).
No benchmark has tested both yet. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) has results on LMArena Image Edit; Kimi K3 on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index. Compare them on price and context instead.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 43.6.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a AA Agentic Index result, 50.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.9%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a MMLU Pro result, 88.0%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1335.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Kimi K3 has a Vals Index result, 53.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K3
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) $0.0020, Kimi K3 $0.011 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Kimi K3 has the number, $0.81.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) not benchmarked, Kimi K3 62.3 from 6 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) $3.00 against Kimi K3 $15.00 per million output tokens, 5.0x apart.
- Context window
- Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) takes 131K tokens, Kimi K3 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index24 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 59.3% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1655 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 76.2 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 93.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 17.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 16.1% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 48.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 18.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 59.5% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 25.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 82.6% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1524.5 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1508 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1499 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1670 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1644 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1579 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 43.6 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 157.9 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 50.0 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1295 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1315 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1269 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1250 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1223 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1252 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1256 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1273 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1058 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 79.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 16.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 42.8% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.1% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.1% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.6% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 1.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | Not measured | 10.5% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 47.8% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| PostTrainBench | Not measured | 32.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $5,165 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 92.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 90.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 93.5% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 46.9% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 93.1% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 94.5% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 60.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 60.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 37.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 26.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1495 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1520 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1496 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 97.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 72.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 39.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 87.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1494 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1505 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 88.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.6% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.3% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 49.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 50.6% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1508 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1489 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1503 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1470 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1335 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1344 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1359 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1351 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1388 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1360 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1302 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 77.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index28 boards measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 53.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 78.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.8% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 73.4% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 88.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 91.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 52.7% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 95.0% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 34.2% | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1476 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1485 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1457 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1481 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1466 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1529 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1490 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1494 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1460 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1492 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1472 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1485 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1458 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1489 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1494 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1471 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1453 | Only Kimi K3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board measured
| Benchmark | Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | Kimi K3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Image Edit | 1387 | Not measured | Only Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) | MoonshotAI Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 18, 2026 | July 16, 2026 |
| Context window | 131K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.50 | $3.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 62.3 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 6 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.81 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) better than Kimi K3 for coding?
Only Kimi K3 has a coding score, 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($3.00 vs $15.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) or Kimi K3?
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens; Kimi K3 costs $3.00 and $15.00. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K3 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Has any benchmark tested both Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Kimi K3?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) has results on LMArena Image Edit; Kimi K3 on LiveBench coding, LMArena WebDev and AA Coding Index. Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of October 21, 2026.