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Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Kimi K2.6 leads Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 27.0 to 12.7, at about the same output price ($4.00 vs $3.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.

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Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI
Coding
52.1
Overall
60.5
Output $/M
$4.00
43
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen
Coding
No data
Overall
52.9
Output $/M
$3.50
1
vs boards won of 44 shared

Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: which to pick

Only Kimi K2.6 has a coding score, 52.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($3.50 vs $4.00 per million) and work measured by SimpleQA Verified, where it leads.

Model AKimi K2.6Moonshot AI52.1/1003 independent benchmarks$0.35 per solved taskModel BQwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507QwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
44
Kimi K2.6 only
65
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 only
2
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 K2.6 52.1 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 not benchmarked.
Widest category
Web design, 34.2 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Design Arena: UI components: Kimi K2.6 1264 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 942, 40.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K2.6 $4.00 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $3.50 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
Context window
Kimi K2.6 takes 262K tokens, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 128K.

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 K2.6BarsQwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Ties
Coding40
Intelligence10
Agentic work20
Reasoning50
Math30
Knowledge41
Web design60
General180
All shared boards431
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
LMArena WebDev1509Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
AA Coding Index61.822.1Kimi K2.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)86.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)76.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)37.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)27.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)53.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
SciCode51.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)43.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
WeirdML55.9%41.0%Kimi K2.6
ALE-Bench1092.7Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: coding14891424Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14841431Kimi K2.6
LMArena WebDev: React1505Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1485Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1521Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
AA Intelligence Index27.012.7Kimi K2.6
Epoch Capabilities Index150.9Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
AA Agentic Index20.51.3Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: agents building web apps1268Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1155Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1156Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1161Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1120Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1141Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1135Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1105Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1276Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)44.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)12.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)15.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)57.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom95.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
OSWorld 2.04.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$6,205-$11Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
GPQA Diamond89.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)86.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)91.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)37.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.8%80.1%Kimi K2.6
Chess puzzles20.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Mystery game puzzles18.0%9.0%Kimi K2.6
EBR-bench2.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14701416Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: expert14911463Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14711432Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams1298Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Vision: homework1310Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
Math benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
OTIS Mock AIME96.1%86.7%Kimi K2.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 357.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
FrontierMath, tier 425.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ProofBench16.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14741412Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work14801435Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
MMLU Pro87.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)61.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)40.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
SimpleQA Verified34.9%40.4%Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
LMArena Text: science14681433Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14571456Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: legal and government14621415Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14451413Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
Design Arena: websites12691052Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: UI components1264942Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: game dev1250956Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: data viz1249950Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: 3D1267997Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: all code categories12711032Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: SVG1180Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1165Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index180
General benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)56.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)50.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)78.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Vals Multimodal Index56.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
IFBench76.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)81.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
DTBench90.9%80.3%Kimi K2.6
LMCA37.3%29.3%Kimi K2.6
Fiction.LiveBenchNot measured75.0%Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)Not measured82.4%Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured
Furniture assembly21.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ExploitBench18.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text14551415Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14511386Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14341384Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision1282Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: English14601429Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: non-English14461397Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Chinese15201481Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: German14511408Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Japanese14431386Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Korean14271375Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: French1471Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish14641389Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Russian14461401Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Polish14381390Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn14531406Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14681400Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14391388Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14281370Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: English1287Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1346Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1291Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Vision: humor1280Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1273Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Document1451Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 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 K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Leader
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 K2.6$0.0029Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.0022Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K2.6$0.059Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.033Fits in one request

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K2.6$0.230Fits in one request
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507$0.125Exceeds the context window

Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 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 K2.6 and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K2.6Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedApril 20, 2026July 25, 2025
Context window262K128K
Input $/Mtok$0.95$0.45
Output $/Mtok$4.00$3.50
Coding index52.1Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it30
Cost per solved task$0.35Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for coding?

Only Kimi K2.6 has a coding score, 52.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($3.50 vs $4.00 per million) and work measured by SimpleQA Verified, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs $0.45 and $3.50. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K2.6 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?

Kimi K2.6, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 comparison based on?

44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Kimi K2.6's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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