MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~moonshotai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 52.9 |
| Input Price | $0.16/M | $0.10/M |
| Output Price | $10.14/M | $0.90/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 235,929 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 52.2 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 35.3 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 69.1 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.33 and Kimi Latest costs $2.69, so Qwen3.6 35B A3B is about 8.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Kimi Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.6 35B A3B on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Kimi Latest if you need long documents; pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 154 |
| Code Review | 132 | 147 |
| Code Completion | 129 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 144 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 156 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 140 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 133 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 129 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 132 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 137 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 151 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 141 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 138 |
| JSON Extraction | 129 | 143 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 126 | 133 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 138 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 138 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 142 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 121 | 128 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →