Kimi K2.7 Code vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Kimi K2.7 Code leads Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.8 to 12.7, at about the same output price ($4.00 vs $3.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.
Kimi K2.7 Code or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: which to pick
Only Kimi K2.7 Code has a coding score, 53.4 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.
- Shared results
- 14
- Kimi K2.7 Code only
- 37
- Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 only
- 32
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Kimi K2.7 Code has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code leads, 25.8 against 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code leads, 21.0 against 1.3.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code leads, 1264 against 1053.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Kimi K2.7 Code $0.0029, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $0.0022 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Kimi K2.7 Code has the number, $0.35.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2.7 Code 53.4 from 4 benchmarks, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 31.8 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: UI components: Kimi K2.7 Code 1259 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 945, 39.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2.7 Code $4.00 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $3.50 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2.7 Code 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.
| Category | Kimi K2.7 Code | Bars | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 0 | ||
| Math | 1 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 13 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1474 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| AA Coding Index | 60.8 | 22.1 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 82.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 78.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 47.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 25.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 50.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| SciCode | 47.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| FrontierCode | 30.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| WeirdML | 54.1% | 41.0% | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| ALE-Bench | 886.2 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1424 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1431 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1475 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1451 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1513 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 25.8 | 12.7 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.1 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 21.0 | 1.3 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1176 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1175 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1143 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1137 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1147 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1131 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1201 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1154 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 90.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| APEX-Agents | 37.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,083 | -$11 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 35.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 87.9% | 80.1% | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| SimpleBench | 57.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Chess puzzles | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 9.0% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1416 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1463 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1432 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | 86.7% | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 54.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 12.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1412 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1435 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 36.5% | 40.4% | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1433 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1456 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1415 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1413 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1264 | 1053 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1259 | 945 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1220 | 957 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1227 | 950 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1241 | 998 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1253 | 1033 | Kimi K2.7 Code |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1176 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1196 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 79.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 80.3% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 29.3% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 75.0% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 82.4% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 48.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.7 Code measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1415 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1386 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1384 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1429 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1397 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1481 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1408 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1386 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1375 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1389 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1401 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1390 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1406 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1400 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1388 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1370 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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.
| Specification | MoonshotAI Kimi K2.7 Code | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | June 12, 2026 | July 25, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.95 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.00 | $3.50 |
| Coding index | 53.4 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.35 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for coding?
Only Kimi K2.7 Code has a coding score, 53.4 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 K2.7 Code or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Kimi K2.7 Code 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 K2.7 Code only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.7 Code or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Kimi K2.7 Code, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.7 Code vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2.7 Code's coding index rests on 4 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.