Model comparison

Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.5-4B

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#12); Qwen3.5-4B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #12 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

36.2

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Kimi K3 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-4B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K3 leads 74.0 to 33.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.2% for Kimi K3 and 55.8% for Qwen3.5-4B.

Side by side

Kimi K3 and Qwen3.5-4B specifications
Kimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.536.2
Released2026-07-162026-02-24
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked531

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K3: 60.6 (#8), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
DeepSWE68.5%—
FrontierCode44.2%—
LMArena WebDev1659—
FrontierSWE25.9%—
SciCode59.5%—
WeirdML82.6%—
LMArena Coding1509—
ALE-Bench1,524—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K3: 41.8 (#19), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
APEX-Agents50.6%—
τ²-bench Banking37.1%—
PostTrainBench32%—
GBAEval48.3%—
GDP.pdf19%—
Vending-Bench 25,165—

Reasoning Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.0 (#15), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
SimpleBench60.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.6%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles39%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1495—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA52.7%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.68—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Kimi K3 leads

Kimi K3: 74.0 (#13), Qwen3.5-4B: 33.2

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%55.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)72.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 439%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions87.8%—
ProofBench87%—
LMArena Math1493—

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.2 (#19), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
GPQA Diamond93.1%—
SimpleQA Verified50.6%—
LMArena Expert1520—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K3: 38.4 (#58), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
Blueprint-Bench 229.5%—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K3: 56.5 (#20), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
LMArena Non-English1466—
LMArena Chinese1528—
LMArena French1488—
LMArena German1474—
LMArena Japanese1492—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1481—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K3: 77.8 (#13), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1481—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K3: 45.8 (#27), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
LMArena Longer Query1494—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K3: 76.7 (#4), Qwen3.5-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen3.5-4B
LMArena Text1476—
LMArena Creative Writing1452—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2082—
EQ-Bench 41339—
LMArena Multi-Turn1488—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Qwen3.5-4B?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#12); Qwen3.5-4B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K3 and Qwen3.5-4B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Kimi K3 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-4B has 1.

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