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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
Vendormoonshotaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score65.3-
Input Price$0.95/M$0.07/M
Output Price$4.00/M$0.26/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output235,92965,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index44.5-
eqbench76.6-

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
SQL Generation 141 134
Code Review 144 132
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 144 136
Bug Fixing 148 136
Unit Test Generation 131 124
Code Documentation 135 131
Regex Writing 126 119
CI/CD Pipelines 127 120
Frontend Component Design 130 122
Data Analysis 135 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 134
ETL Scripting 136 128
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 132 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 131
Long-Document Summarization 146 138
Short-Form Summarization 126 123
Blog Post Writing 129 122

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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