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Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-06.

Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-79.3
Input Price$0.30/M$0.59/M
Output Price$1.80/M$2.48/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,536262,144
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-73.0
ai_index_agentic-49.9
ai_index_coding-100.0
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 133 169
Code Review 132 165
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 161
Bug Fixing 136 176
Unit Test Generation 124 153
Code Documentation 131 142
Regex Writing 119 136
CI/CD Pipelines 120 143
Frontend Component Design 122 146
Data Analysis 124 167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 152
ETL Scripting 128 152
JSON Extraction 131 147
Bulk Data Labeling 129 134
OCR / Document Parsing 131 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 145
Long-Document Summarization 137 158
Short-Form Summarization 123 132
Blog Post Writing 121 140

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

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