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Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Kimi K3 leads Qwen3.6 Plus on coding, 62.3 to 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 Plus costs 7.7x less per output token ($1.95 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 76 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K3 Replace Qwen3.6 Plus
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
62.3
Overall
66.5
Output $/M
$15.00
75
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
44.1
Overall
56.2
Output $/M
$1.95
1
vs boards won of 76 shared

Kimi K3 or Qwen3.6 Plus: which to pick

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 7.7x cheaper ($1.95 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 PlusQwen44.1/1003 independent benchmarks$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
76
Kimi K3 only
41
Qwen3.6 Plus only
7
Like-for-like categories
8 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 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 20.7 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Kimi K3 85.0% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 59.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K3 $15.00 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 7.7x apart.
Context window
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M 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 K3BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding140
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning100
Math40
Knowledge101
Web design70
General230
All shared boards751
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index140
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding59.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev16551461Kimi K3
AA Coding Index76.254.5Kimi K3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.2%86.0%Kimi K3
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)93.4%73.4%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)85.0%25.6%Kimi K3
Code migration (Vals AI)16.1%11.1%Kimi K3
ProgramBench (Vals AI)2.0%0.0%Kimi K3
IOI (Vals AI)48.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)80.9%53.2%Kimi K3
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%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured43.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
FrontierCode44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierSWE25.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML82.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ALE-Bench1524.5670.1Kimi K3
LMArena Text: coding15081467Kimi K3
LMArena Text: software and IT14991462Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: React16701454Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: HTML16441463Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: from an image15791472Kimi K3
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 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index43.627.0Kimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index157.9147.3Kimi K3
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index50.0Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
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 apps1250Not 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 slides1256Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1273Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1058Not 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%40.9%Kimi K3
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.4%7.7%Kimi K3
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)46.1%14.9%Kimi K3
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)12.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)66.7%32.9%Kimi K3
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 measured97.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
APEX-Agents47.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
PostTrainBench32.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$5,165$5,115Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond92.9%87.4%Kimi K3
LiveBench reasoning90.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)88.2%84.2%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)93.5%88.2%Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)46.9%27.8%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)93.1%88.4%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%14.0%Kimi K3
Mystery game puzzles26.0%12.0%Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts14951448Kimi K3
LMArena Text: expert15201454Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14961455Kimi K3
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 K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIMENot measured94.6%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
OTIS Mock AIME97.2%93.3%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 372.2%38.2%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tier 439.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProofBench87.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: math14941449Kimi K3
LMArena Text: mathematical work15051448Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index101
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro88.0%87.7%Kimi K3
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.2%84.2%Kimi K3
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)71.6%61.9%Kimi K3
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.7%74.7%Kimi K3
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.3%68.0%Qwen3.6 Plus
MedCode (Vals AI)49.4%36.9%Kimi K3
SimpleQA Verified50.6%44.1%Kimi K3
LMArena Text: science15081439Kimi K3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14891442Kimi K3
LMArena Text: legal and government15031437Kimi K3
LMArena Text: business and finance14701430Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites13351243Kimi K3
Design Arena: UI components13441233Kimi K3
Design Arena: game dev13591211Kimi K3
Design Arena: data viz13511228Kimi K3
Design Arena: 3D13881202Kimi K3
Design Arena: all code categories13601236Kimi K3
Design Arena: SVG13021161Kimi K3
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1113Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LiveBench design77.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index230
General benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
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%44.9%Kimi K3
MedScribe (Vals AI)88.0%77.0%Kimi K3
Vals Multimodal Index73.4%51.5%Kimi K3
IFBenchNot measured75.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)88.7%78.3%Kimi K3
DTBench91.2%81.9%Kimi K3
LMCA52.7%33.1%Kimi K3
CL-benchNot measured20.3%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Surface Evolver Bench95.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assembly34.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text14761436Kimi K3
LMArena Text: instruction following14851424Kimi K3
LMArena Text: creative writing14571404Kimi K3
LMArena Text: English14811445Kimi K3
LMArena Text: non-English14661424Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Chinese15291477Kimi K3
LMArena Text: German14901451Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Japanese14941390Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Korean14601379Kimi K3
LMArena Text: French14921455Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Spanish14721432Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Russian14851434Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Polish14581433Kimi K3
LMArena Text: multi-turn14891438Kimi K3
LMArena Text: longer queries14941439Kimi K3
LMArena Text: writing and language14711418Kimi K3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14531402Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 16 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 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.6 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 K3$0.011Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.195Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.750Fits 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 K3 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K3Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedJuly 16, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.325
Output $/Mtok$15.00$1.95
Coding index62.344.1
Independent measurements behind it63
Cost per solved task$0.81$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 7.7x cheaper ($1.95 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by MortgageTax (Vals AI), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Kimi K3 costs $0.81 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.

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

Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

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

76 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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