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Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Kimi K2.5 leads Qwen3.7 Plus on coding, 38.6 to 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.7 Plus costs 2.2x less per output token ($1.28 vs $2.85 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 61 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K2.5 Replace Qwen3.7 Plus
Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI
Coding
38.6
Overall
44.8
Output $/M
$2.85
14
Qwen3.7 PlusQwen
Coding
33.2
Overall
54.0
Output $/M
$1.28
47
vs boards won of 61 shared

Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus: which to pick

Pick Kimi K2.5 for coding: it scores 38.6 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 2.2x cheaper ($1.28 vs $2.85 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 262K tokens).

Model AKimi K2.5Moonshot AI38.6/1003 independent benchmarks$0.24 per solved taskModel BQwen3.7 PlusQwen33.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
61
Kimi K2.5 only
38
Qwen3.7 Plus only
14
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

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.

At a glance

Coding index
Kimi K2.5 38.6 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Plus 33.2 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 9.9 points apart on average over 7 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Kimi K2.5 17.5% against Qwen3.7 Plus 46.4%, 28.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K2.5 $2.85 against Qwen3.7 Plus $1.28 per million output tokens, 2.2x apart.
Context window
Kimi K2.5 takes 262K tokens, Qwen3.7 Plus 1M.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryKimi K2.5BarsQwen3.7 PlusTies
Coding16
Intelligence11
Agentic work13
Reasoning25
Math20
Knowledge14
Web design17
General521
All shared boards1447
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index16
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
SWE-bench Verified70.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual67.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena WebDev1437Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
AA Coding Index46.855.9Qwen3.7 Plus
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)83.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)70.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)17.5%46.4%Qwen3.7 Plus
Code migration (Vals AI)7.0%12.9%Qwen3.7 Plus
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)42.0%52.8%Qwen3.7 Plus
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured54.3%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
SciCodeNot measured46.1%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)34.8%47.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
Terminal-Bench43.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
FrontierCodeNot measured10.2%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
WeirdML45.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
ALE-Bench821.6Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena Text: coding14831473Kimi K2.5
LMArena Text: software and IT14711473Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena WebDev: React1429Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1426Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1439Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index23.525.2Qwen3.7 Plus
Epoch Capabilities Index148.1147.0Kimi K2.5
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured17.5Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1136Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1114Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1147Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1118Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1219Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)35.8%38.2%Qwen3.7 Plus
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured10.5%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)15.9%16.4%Qwen3.7 Plus
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)28.5%49.3%Qwen3.7 Plus
τ²-Bench Telecom95.9%93.0%Kimi K2.5
OSWorld 2.0Not measured2.8%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
OSWorld63.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Vending-Bench 2$1,198Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index25
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond84.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)84.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)87.9%90.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)30.7%35.6%Qwen3.7 Plus
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured87.9%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
ARC-AGI65.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
ARC-AGI-211.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
SimpleBench46.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured17.0%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14531460Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: expert14661466Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14601460Kimi K2.5
LMArena Vision: diagrams12821292Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: homework12971295Kimi K2.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark78.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AIME95.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured93.3%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured34.4%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Text: math14701467Kimi K2.5
LMArena Text: mathematical work14731470Kimi K2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro85.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)58.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)68.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.5%66.2%Kimi K2.5
MedQA (Vals AI)94.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)39.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
SimpleQA Verified34.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena Text: science14591464Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14481464Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: legal and government14411451Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: business and finance14271435Qwen3.7 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12481269Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: UI components12361261Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: game dev12071262Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: data viz12191276Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: 3D12051239Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: all code categories12361269Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: SVG11491208Qwen3.7 Plus
Design Arena: ASCII art11661143Kimi K2.5
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index521
General benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)49.9%39.3%Kimi K2.5
MedScribe (Vals AI)76.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured53.9%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
IFBench70.2%78.0%Qwen3.7 Plus
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.0%73.0%Kimi K2.5
DTBenchNot measured84.0%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMCANot measured37.6%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Fiction.LiveBench86.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
CL-bench19.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
CL-bench Life13.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena Text14451454Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: instruction following14311439Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: creative writing14221438Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision12691278Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: English14531458Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: non-English14331445Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Chinese14941509Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: German14411471Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese14231412Kimi K2.5
LMArena Text: Korean14121413Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: French14541472Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Spanish14501457Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Russian14351457Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: Polish14451449Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: multi-turn14441459Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: longer queries14451454Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: writing and language14251437Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14171422Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: English12741280Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: Chinese13281332Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: reading text12761288Qwen3.7 Plus
LMArena Vision: humor12841261Kimi K2.5
LMArena Vision: captioning1257Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1285Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.5 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12691258Kimi K2.5
LMArena DocumentNot measured1444Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.5Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 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

Kimi K2.5$0.0020Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K2.5$0.035Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.020Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K2.5$0.135Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.077Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus 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.

Specifications of Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.7 Plus
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K2.5Qwen3.7 Plus
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2026June 3, 2026
Context window262K1M
Input $/Mtok$0.532$0.32
Output $/Mtok$2.85$1.28
Coding index38.633.2
Independent measurements behind it32
Cost per solved task$0.24Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K2.5 better than Qwen3.7 Plus for coding?

Pick Kimi K2.5 for coding: it scores 38.6 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus. Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 2.2x cheaper ($1.28 vs $2.85 per million) and a larger context window (1M against 262K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Kimi K2.5 costs $0.532 per million input tokens and $2.85 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.32 and $1.28. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K2.5 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Qwen3.7 Plus, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3.7 Plus comparison based on?

61 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2.5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Plus's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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