Model comparison

Kimi K2.7 Code vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Kimi K2.7 Code and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.3 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI

43.3

Rank #94 Confirmed

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2.7 Code leads 39.0 to 15.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 57.9% for Kimi K2.7 Code and 31% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.95 / $4 for Kimi K2.7 Code.
  • Kimi K2.7 Code accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Kimi K2.7 Code and Qwen3 235B-A22B specifications
Kimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.343.5
Released2026-06-122025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K131K
Max output262K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.95$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$4$2.80
Results tracked1949

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 42.9 (#95), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
SciCode47.5%42.4%
WeirdML54.1%41%
DeepSWE30.5%—
FrontierCode30.1%—
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
LMArena WebDev1473—
LMArena Coding—1445
ALE-Bench886.23—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 24.0 (#122), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
Vending-Bench 25,083-11.34
APEX-Agents37.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
GBAEval0.9%—

Reasoning Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 39.0 (#61), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
SimpleBench57.9%31%
CritPt10%0%
Chess Puzzles21%12%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.97143.85
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1433
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—80.3%
LMCA—29.3%
Surface Evolver Bench48.8%—
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 52.9 (#48), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)54%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
Omni-MATH—71.8%
LMArena Math—1432
MATH Level 5—68.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Kimi K2.7 Code leads

Kimi K2.7 Code: 53.5 (#57), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond87.9%80.1%
SimpleQA Verified36.5%40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1463

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English—1409
LMArena Chinese—1481
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval—83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following—1408

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench—75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K2.7 Code: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.7 CodeQwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text—1419
LMArena Creative Writing—1384
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1432

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.7 Code better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Kimi K2.7 Code and Qwen3 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.3 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.7 Code or Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.7 Code lists at $0.95 and $4.

Is Kimi K2.7 Code or Qwen3 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 42.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K2.7 Code does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.7 Code and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.7 Code has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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