Kimi K2 0711 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Kimi K2 0711 leads Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 12.7 to 11.2, and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs 1.9x less per output token ($1.20 vs $2.30 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 1 benchmarks have a result for both.
Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 1
- Kimi K2 0711 only
- 36
- Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking only
- 29
- Like-for-like categories
- 1 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
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Kimi K2 0711
Kimi K2 0711 leads, 12.7 against 11.2.
Same board, both measured
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 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking takes 262K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Kimi K2 0711 $0.0017, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2 0711 not benchmarked, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Intelligence, 1.5 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Intelligence Index: Kimi K2 0711 12.7 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 11.2, 1.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2 0711 $2.30 against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.9x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2 0711 takes 131K tokens, Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 1 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | 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 | 17.4 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 70.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| 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 |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1392 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1393 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 11.2 | Kimi K2 0711 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| SimpleBench | 26.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1371 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1376 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1384 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 64.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | 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 |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1399 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1390 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 50.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 70.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 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 |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1384 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1392 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1364 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1360 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1050 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1027 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 973 | 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 | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 41.5% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2 0711 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 |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1368 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1344 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1314 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1392 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1342 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1407 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1356 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1280 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1310 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1351 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1358 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1337 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1345 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1346 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1353 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1330 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1312 | Only Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2 0711 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking | 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 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking 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 Next 80B A3B Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | July 11, 2025 | September 11, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.57 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.30 | $1.20 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2 0711 better than Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
Kimi K2 0711 costs $0.57 per million input tokens and $2.30 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking costs $0.15 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2 0711 or Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking?
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2 0711 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking comparison based on?
1 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Kimi K2 0711's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.