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Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5

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

Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-59.2
Input Price$0.30/M$0.45/M
Output Price$1.80/M$2.25/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,536235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-38.7
eqbench-72.5

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
SQL Generation 133 140
Code Review 132 142
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 136 143
Bug Fixing 136 146
Unit Test Generation 124 131
Code Documentation 131 135
Regex Writing 119 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 127
Frontend Component Design 122 129
Data Analysis 124 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 134
ETL Scripting 128 135
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 132
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 132
Long-Document Summarization 137 145
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 121 128

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

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