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Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

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

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score28.959.2
Input Price$0.31/M$0.45/M
Output Price$1.25/M$2.25/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output16,384235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index31.938.7
eqbench-72.5

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
SQL Generation 134 140
Code Review 132 142
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 132 143
Bug Fixing 136 146
Unit Test Generation 125 131
Code Documentation 129 135
Regex Writing 122 126
CI/CD Pipelines 121 127
Frontend Component Design 125 129
Data Analysis 128 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 134
ETL Scripting 127 135
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 129 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 129 132
Long-Document Summarization 134 145
Short-Form Summarization 125 126
Blog Post Writing 122 128

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

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