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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendor~moonshotaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-18.3
Input Price$0.99/M$0.10/M
Output Price$12.75/M$0.15/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,71832,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-22.5

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestQwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 132 133
Code Review 132 130
Code Completion 129 129
Code Refactoring 136 131
Bug Fixing 136 134
Unit Test Generation 124 123
Code Documentation 129 128
Regex Writing 117 122
CI/CD Pipelines 120 119
Frontend Component Design 122 124
Data Analysis 124 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 129
ETL Scripting 128 125
JSON Extraction 129 131
Bulk Data Labeling 125 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 136 133
Short-Form Summarization 121 125
Blog Post Writing 120 121

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

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