Compare / Qwen3 Max vs Kimi K2.6

Qwen3 Max vs Kimi K2.6

18 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Qwen3 Max
Alibaba · profile
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI · profile
Results compared
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Shared sources
5
BenchmarkMetricQwen3 MaxKimi K2.6
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4191,455
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3931,433
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4181,503
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4131,456
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4231,461
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4051,441
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 15.627.0
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 76.4%91.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 11.9%37.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 44.1%76.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 50.0%81.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 20.5%43.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 74.3%95.9%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 48.7%34.9%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 23.0%18.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.330.35
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 38.664.4
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $71.56$6,204.57

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.