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Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.6 27B

Kimi K3 leads Qwen3.6 27B on coding, 62.3 to 36.8 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 27B costs 5.6x less per output token ($2.70 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 20 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K3 Replace Qwen3.6 27B
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
62.3
Overall
66.5
Output $/M
$15.00
19
Qwen3.6 27BQwen
Coding
36.8
Overall
45.3
Output $/M
$2.70
1
vs boards won of 20 shared

Kimi K3 or Qwen3.6 27B: which to pick

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.8 for Qwen3.6 27B.

Pick Qwen3.6 27B for output tokens 5.6x cheaper ($2.70 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by MortgageTax (Vals AI), where it leads.

Model AKimi K3Moonshot AI62.3/1006 independent benchmarks$0.81 per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 27BQwen36.8/1002 independent benchmarks$1.30 per solved task
Shared results
20
Kimi K3 only
97
Qwen3.6 27B only
4
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.

At a glance

Coding index
Kimi K3 62.3 from 6 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 27B 36.8 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 33.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Kimi K3 85.0% against Qwen3.6 27B 11.9%, 73.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K3 $15.00 against Qwen3.6 27B $2.70 per million output tokens, 5.6x apart.
Context window
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryKimi K3BarsQwen3.6 27BTies
Coding40
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning40
Math20
Knowledge21
General40
All shared boards191
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
LiveBench coding59.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev1655Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
AA Coding Index76.253.7Kimi K3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)93.4%70.0%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)85.0%11.9%Kimi K3
Code migration (Vals AI)16.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)2.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
IOI (Vals AI)48.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)80.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)18.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)75.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SciCode59.5%42.8%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured34.8%Only Qwen3.6 27B measured
FrontierCode44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierSWE25.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML82.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ALE-Bench1524.5Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: coding1508Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: software and IT1499Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev: React1670Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1644Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1579Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
AA Intelligence Index43.621.4Kimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index157.9146.2Kimi K3
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
AA Agentic Index50.018.5Kimi K3
Design Arena: agents building web apps1295Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1315Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1269Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1253Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1223Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1252Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1206Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1247Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1070Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench research79.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench browser16.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench long agentic42.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)46.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)12.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)66.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)1.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)10.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured94.2%Only Qwen3.6 27B measured
APEX-Agents47.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
PostTrainBench32.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$5,165Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
GPQA Diamond92.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench reasoning90.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)88.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)93.5%84.2%Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)46.9%23.1%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)93.1%85.9%Kimi K3
ARC-AGI94.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ARC-AGI-260.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SimpleBench60.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Chess puzzles37.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Mystery game puzzles26.0%7.0%Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts1495Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: expert1520Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English1496Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
OTIS Mock AIME97.2%91.1%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 372.2%35.1%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tier 439.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProofBench87.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: math1494Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work1505Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
MMLU Pro88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured53.2%Only Qwen3.6 27B measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)71.6%62.3%Kimi K3
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.7%71.3%Kimi K3
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.3%68.3%Qwen3.6 27B
MedCode (Vals AI)49.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SimpleQA Verified50.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: science1508Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare1489Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: legal and government1503Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: business and finance1470Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
Design Arena: websites1334Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: UI components1341Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: game dev1358Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: data viz1351Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: 3D1387Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: all code categories1360Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: SVG1302Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench design77.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
General benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
Vals Index53.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench data analysis78.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)68.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)52.8%45.6%Kimi K3
MedScribe (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vals Multimodal Index73.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
IFBenchNot measured67.6%Only Qwen3.6 27B measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)88.7%77.3%Kimi K3
DTBench91.2%78.1%Kimi K3
LMCA52.7%34.5%Kimi K3
Surface Evolver Bench95.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assembly34.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text1476Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: instruction following1485Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: creative writing1457Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: English1481Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: non-English1466Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Chinese1529Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: German1490Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Japanese1494Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Korean1460Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: French1492Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish1472Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Russian1485Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Polish1458Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn1489Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: longer queries1494Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: writing and language1471Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and media1453Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 27BLeader
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 K3$0.011Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 27B$0.0018Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 27B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.195Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 27B$0.031Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 27B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.750Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 27B$0.117Fits in one request

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.

Specifications of Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K3Qwen3.6 27B
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedJuly 16, 2026April 27, 2026
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.45
Output $/Mtok$15.00$2.70
Coding index62.336.8
Independent measurements behind it62
Cost per solved task$0.81$1.30
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Qwen3.6 27B for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 36.8 for Qwen3.6 27B. Pick Qwen3.6 27B for output tokens 5.6x cheaper ($2.70 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by MortgageTax (Vals AI), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.6 27B?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.45 and $2.70. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Kimi K3 costs $0.81 and Qwen3.6 27B $1.30.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.6 27B?

Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.6 27B comparison based on?

20 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Kimi K3's coding index rests on 6 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.

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