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MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

MoonshotAI: Kimi Latest Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendor~moonshotaiqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-43.2
Input Price$0.99/M$0.33/M
Output Price$12.75/M$1.95/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output943,71865,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-44.6

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi LatestQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 132 139
Code Review 132 140
Code Completion 129 132
Code Refactoring 136 143
Bug Fixing 136 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 129 135
Regex Writing 117 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 124 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 135
ETL Scripting 128 134
JSON Extraction 129 131
Bulk Data Labeling 125 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 136 144
Short-Form Summarization 121 125
Blog Post Writing 120 127

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

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