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Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Kimi K3 leads Qwen3.7 Plus on coding, 62.3 to 33.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.7 Plus costs 11.7x less per output token ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 60 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K3 Replace Qwen3.7 Plus
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
62.3
Overall
43.6
Output $/M
$15.00
60
Qwen3.7 PlusQwen
Coding
33.2
Overall
25.2
Output $/M
$1.28
0
vs boards won of 60 shared

Kimi K3 or Qwen3.7 Plus: which to pick

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 11.7x cheaper ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million).

Model AKimi K3Moonshot AI62.3/1006 independent benchmarks$0.81 per solved taskModel BQwen3.7 PlusQwen33.2/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
60
Kimi K3 only
57
Qwen3.7 Plus only
15
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, Qwen3.7 Plus 33.2 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 23.5 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
FrontierCode: Kimi K3 44.2% against Qwen3.7 Plus 10.2%, 52.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K3 $15.00 against Qwen3.7 Plus $1.28 per million output tokens, 11.7x apart.
Context window
Kimi K3 takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.7 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 K3BarsQwen3.7 PlusTies
Coding80
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning70
Math40
Knowledge50
Web design70
General220
All shared boards600
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index80
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
LiveBench coding59.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev1655Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
AA Coding Index76.255.9Kimi K3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)93.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)85.0%46.4%Kimi K3
Code migration (Vals AI)16.1%12.9%Kimi K3
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%52.8%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
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured54.3%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)75.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SciCode59.5%46.1%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured47.0%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
FrontierCode44.2%10.2%Kimi K3
FrontierSWE25.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML82.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ALE-Bench1524.5Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: coding15081473Kimi K3
LMArena Text: software and IT14991473Kimi K3
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 12 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index43.625.2Kimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index157.9147.0Kimi K3
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index50.017.5Kimi 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 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%38.2%Kimi K3
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.4%10.5%Kimi K3
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)46.1%16.4%Kimi K3
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)12.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)66.7%49.3%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 measured93.0%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
APEX-Agents47.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
OSWorld 2.0Not measured2.8%Only Qwen3.7 Plus 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 13 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
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%90.0%Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)46.9%35.6%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)93.1%87.9%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%17.0%Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts14951460Kimi K3
LMArena Text: expert15201466Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14961460Kimi K3
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1292Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1295Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
OTIS Mock AIME97.2%93.3%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 372.2%34.4%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tier 439.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProofBench87.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: math14941467Kimi K3
LMArena Text: mathematical work15051470Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)71.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.3%66.2%Kimi K3
MedCode (Vals AI)49.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SimpleQA Verified50.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: science15081464Kimi K3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14891464Kimi K3
LMArena Text: legal and government15031451Kimi K3
LMArena Text: business and finance14701435Kimi 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 Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websites13351269Kimi K3
Design Arena: UI components13441261Kimi K3
Design Arena: game dev13591262Kimi K3
Design Arena: data viz13511276Kimi K3
Design Arena: 3D13881239Kimi K3
Design Arena: all code categories13601269Kimi K3
Design Arena: SVG13021208Kimi K3
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1143Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LiveBench design77.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index220
General benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 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%39.3%Kimi K3
MedScribe (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vals Multimodal Index73.4%53.9%Kimi K3
IFBenchNot measured78.0%Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)88.7%73.0%Kimi K3
DTBench91.2%84.0%Kimi K3
LMCA52.7%37.6%Kimi K3
Surface Evolver Bench95.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assembly34.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text14761454Kimi K3
LMArena Text: instruction following14851439Kimi K3
LMArena Text: creative writing14571438Kimi K3
LMArena VisionNot measured1278Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Text: English14811458Kimi K3
LMArena Text: non-English14661445Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Chinese15291509Kimi K3
LMArena Text: German14901471Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Japanese14941412Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Korean14601413Kimi K3
LMArena Text: French14921472Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Spanish14721457Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Russian14851457Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Polish14581449Kimi K3
LMArena Text: multi-turn14891459Kimi K3
LMArena Text: longer queries14941454Kimi K3
LMArena Text: writing and language14711437Kimi K3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14531422Kimi K3
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1280Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1332Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1288Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1261Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1258Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
LMArena DocumentNot measured1444Only Qwen3.7 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Plus
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.7 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
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.195Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.020Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.750Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus$0.077Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 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 Qwen3.7 Plus
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K3Qwen3.7 Plus
MakerMoonshot AIQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedJuly 16, 2026June 3, 2026
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.32
Output $/Mtok$15.00$1.28
Coding index62.333.2
Independent measurements behind it62
Cost per solved task$0.81Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Qwen3.7 Plus for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 62.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.2 for Qwen3.7 Plus. Pick Qwen3.7 Plus for output tokens 11.7x cheaper ($1.28 vs $15.00 per million).

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus costs $0.32 and $1.28. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.7 Plus comparison based on?

60 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.7 Plus's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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