Kimi K2 0711 vs Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads Kimi K2 0711 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 21.4 to 12.7, at about the same output price ($2.70 vs $2.30 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 10 benchmarks have a result for both.
Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3.6 27B: which to pick
Only Qwen3.6 27B has a coding score, 36.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Kimi K2 0711 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Kimi K2 0711 for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($2.30 vs $2.70 per million).
- Shared results
- 10
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 27
- Qwen3.6 27B only
- 14
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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 Qwen3.6 27B has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads, 21.4 against 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Qwen3.6 27B has a AA Agentic Index result, 18.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a GPQA Diamond result, 71.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a AIME result, 62.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.4%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Kimi K2 0711 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1050.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B takes 262K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017, Qwen3.6 27B $0.0018 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Qwen3.6 27B has the number, $1.30.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2 0711 not benchmarked, Qwen3.6 27B 36.8 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 33.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: Kimi K2 0711 61.1% against Qwen3.6 27B 94.2%, 33.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 against Qwen3.6 27B $2.70 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens, Qwen3.6 27B 262K.
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 0711 | Bars | Qwen3.6 27B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 2 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 10 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 59.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 53.7 | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 70.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 70.0% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.9% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 42.8% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | 34.8% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| WeirdML | 39.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 21.4 | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.0 | 146.2 | Qwen3.6 27B |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 18.5 | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 61.1% | 94.2% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.6% | 84.2% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.4% | 23.1% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 85.9% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 7.0% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 62.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AA Math Index | 57.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 57.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 91.1% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 35.1% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.2% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 50.4% | 62.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.2% | 71.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.3% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 84.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1050 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1030 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 974 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1018 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1033 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.6% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| IFBench | 41.5% | 67.6% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 53.0% | 77.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| DTBench | Not measured | 78.1% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 34.5% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 85.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CL-bench | 11.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B | 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
Kimi K2 0711 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.6 27B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.6 27B 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 0711 | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | July 11, 2025 | April 27, 2026 |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.57 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.30 | $2.70 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 36.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $1.30 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2 0711 better than Qwen3.6 27B for coding?
Only Qwen3.6 27B has a coding score, 36.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Kimi K2 0711 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Kimi K2 0711 for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($2.30 vs $2.70 per million).
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3.6 27B?
Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.45 and $2.70. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.6 27B only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2 0711 vs Qwen3.6 27B comparison based on?
10 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2 0711's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 27B's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.