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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-04.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-79.3
Input Price$2.00/M$0.59/M
Output Price$6.00/M$2.48/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output131,072262,144
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: Qwen3.8 MaxMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation 133 169
Code Review 132 165
Code Completion 118 132
Code Refactoring 136 161
Bug Fixing 136 176
Unit Test Generation 124 153
Code Documentation 130 142
Regex Writing 118 136
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 122 147
Bulk Data Labeling 119 134
OCR / Document Parsing 131 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 145
Long-Document Summarization 137 158
Short-Form Summarization 114 132
Blog Post Writing 121 140

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

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