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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-02.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score52.379.3
Input Price$0.14/M$0.60/M
Output Price$1.00/M$3.41/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,144262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index52.273.0
ai_index_agentic35.349.9
ai_index_coding69.1100.0
eqbench-76.6

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 154 168
Code Review 147 165
Code Completion 130 132
Code Refactoring 144 161
Bug Fixing 156 176
Unit Test Generation 140 153
Code Documentation 133 141
Regex Writing 129 136
CI/CD Pipelines 132 143
Frontend Component Design 137 146
Data Analysis 151 167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 141 152
ETL Scripting 138 152
JSON Extraction 143 147
Bulk Data Labeling 133 134
OCR / Document Parsing 138 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 145
Long-Document Summarization 142 158
Short-Form Summarization 128 131
Blog Post Writing 130 140

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

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