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Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Updated October 21, 2026. 81 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

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Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI
Coding
44.2
Overall
27.0
Output $/M
$3.41
72
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
37.4
Overall
27.0
Output $/M
$1.95
6
vs boards won of 81 shared, 3 tied

Decision reading

Pick Kimi K2.6 for coding: it scores 44.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus when output tokens cost 1.7x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 262K tokens.

Model AKimi K2.6Moonshot AI44.2/1001 independent benchmark$0.35 per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 PlusQwen37.4/1001 independent benchmark$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
81
Kimi K2.6 only
28
Qwen3.6 Plus only
2
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

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 44.2 from 1 benchmark, Qwen3.6 Plus 37.4 from 1 benchmark.
Widest category
Math, 7.8 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI): Kimi K2.6 57.9% against Qwen3.6 Plus 32.9%, 25.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K2.6 $3.41 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 1.7x apart.
Context window
Kimi K2.6 takes 262K tokens, Qwen3.6 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 K2.6BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding1302 ties
Intelligence101 tie
Agentic work51
Reasoning100
Math40
Knowledge84
Web design80
General231
All shared boards7263 ties
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index130
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LMArena WebDev15091461Kimi K2.6
AA Coding Index61.854.5Kimi K2.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)86.8%86.0%Kimi K2.6
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)76.2%73.4%Kimi K2.6
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)37.9%25.6%Kimi K2.6
Code migration (Vals AI)27.8%11.1%Kimi K2.6
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%0.0%Tie
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)53.6%53.2%Kimi K2.6
SciCode51.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)43.9%43.9%Tie
WeirdML55.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ALE-Bench1092.7670.1Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: coding14891467Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14841462Kimi K2.6
LMArena WebDev: React15051454Kimi K2.6
LMArena WebDev: HTML14851463Kimi K2.6
LMArena WebDev: from an image15211472Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index27.027.0Tie
Epoch Capabilities Index150.9147.3Kimi K2.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index20.5Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
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 apps1166Not 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 slides1184Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1128Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1276Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)44.9%40.9%Kimi K2.6
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)12.4%7.7%Kimi K2.6
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)15.9%14.9%Kimi K2.6
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)57.9%32.9%Kimi K2.6
τ²-Bench Telecom95.9%97.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
OSWorld 2.04.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$6,205$5,115Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond89.1%87.4%Kimi K2.6
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)86.3%84.2%Kimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)91.1%88.2%Kimi K2.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)37.5%27.8%Kimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.8%88.4%Kimi K2.6
Chess puzzles20.0%14.0%Kimi K2.6
Mystery game puzzles18.0%12.0%Kimi K2.6
EBR-bench2.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14701448Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: expert14911454Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14711455Kimi 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 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIMENot measured94.6%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
OTIS Mock AIME96.1%93.3%Kimi K2.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 357.2%38.2%Kimi K2.6
FrontierMath, tier 425.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ProofBench16.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14741449Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work14801448Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index84
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro87.6%87.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
LegalBench (Vals AI)84.7%84.2%Kimi K2.6
CaseLaw (Vals AI)61.2%51.5%Kimi K2.6
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.7%61.9%Kimi K2.6
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.7%74.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.8%68.0%Qwen3.6 Plus
MedCode (Vals AI)40.1%36.9%Kimi K2.6
SimpleQA Verified34.9%44.1%Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: science14681439Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14571442Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: legal and government14621437Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14451430Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites12691243Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: UI components12661233Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: game dev12511211Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: data viz12491228Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: 3D12681202Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: all code categories12721236Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: SVG11811160Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: ASCII art11641115Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index231
General benchmarks for Kimi K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)56.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)50.2%44.9%Kimi K2.6
MedScribe (Vals AI)78.2%77.0%Kimi K2.6
Vals Multimodal Index56.4%51.5%Kimi K2.6
IFBench76.0%75.2%Kimi K2.6
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)81.0%78.3%Kimi K2.6
DTBench90.9%81.9%Kimi K2.6
LMCA37.3%33.1%Kimi K2.6
CL-benchNot measured20.3%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Furniture assembly21.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
ExploitBench18.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text14551436Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14511424Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14341404Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision1282Not measuredOnly Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: English14601445Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: non-English14461424Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Chinese15201477Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: German14511451Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Japanese14431390Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Korean14271379Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: French14711455Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Spanish14641432Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Russian14461434Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Polish14381433Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn14531438Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14681439Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14391418Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14281402Kimi 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 11 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 Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen3.6 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 K2.6$0.0024Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K2.6$0.043Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K2.6$0.164Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.085Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 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 K2.6 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K2.6Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedApril 20, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window262K1M
Input $/Mtok$0.65$0.325
Output $/Mtok$3.41$1.95
Coding index44.237.4
Independent measurements behind it11
Cost per solved task$0.35$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick Kimi K2.6 for coding: it scores 44.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 37.4 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus when output tokens cost 1.7x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 262K tokens.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Kimi K2.6 costs $0.65 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Kimi K2.6 costs $0.35 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?

81 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2.6's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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