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Kimi K2 Thinking vs Qwen3.6 Plus

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Winner summary

Qwen3.6 Plus wins 7 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · reasoning · math.

Category leads
coding·Qwen3.6 Plusreasoning·Qwen3.6 Pluslanguage·Kimi K2 Thinkingmath·Qwen3.6 Plusknowledge·Qwen3.6 Plus
Hype vs Reality
Kimi K2 Thinking
#77 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.6 Plus
#12 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.8x better value than Kimi K2 Thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking
34.4 pts/$
$1.55/M
Qwen3.6 Plus
62.3 pts/$
$1.14/M
Vendor risk
moonshotai logo
moonshotai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Kimi K2 ThinkingQwen3.6 Plus
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +16.7
Kimi K2 Thinking
38.3
Qwen3.6 Plus
55.0
LiveBench · Coding
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +10.7
Kimi K2 Thinking
67.4
Qwen3.6 Plus
78.2
LiveBench · Data Analysis
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +17.6
Kimi K2 Thinking
52.3
Qwen3.6 Plus
69.9
LiveBench · If
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +3.7
Kimi K2 Thinking
62.0
Qwen3.6 Plus
58.3
LiveBench · Language
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +8.5
Kimi K2 Thinking
66.5
Qwen3.6 Plus
75.0
LiveBench · Mathematics
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +2.6
Kimi K2 Thinking
81.1
Qwen3.6 Plus
83.7
LiveBench · Overall
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +9.3
Kimi K2 Thinking
61.6
Qwen3.6 Plus
70.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
Qwen3.6 Plus leads by +12.3
Kimi K2 Thinking
63.5
Qwen3.6 Plus
75.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkKimi K2 ThinkingQwen3.6 Plus
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
38.355.0
LiveBench · Coding
67.478.2
LiveBench · Data Analysis
52.369.9
LiveBench · If
62.058.3
LiveBench · Language
66.575.0
LiveBench · Mathematics
81.183.7
LiveBench · Overall
61.670.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
63.575.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
moonshotai logoKimi K2 Thinking$0.60$2.50262K tokens (~131 books)$10.75
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.6 Plus$0.33$1.951.0M tokens (~500 books)$7.31