Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Kimi K2.6 leads 54.0 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.8% for Kimi K2.6 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index47.730.8
Released2026-04-202024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.95—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked5122

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding14881165
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1509—
SciCode53.5%—
WeirdML55.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench1,093—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
OSWorld 2.04.6%—
ExploitBench18.4%—
GBAEval0.9%—
GDP.pdf12%—
Vending-Bench 26,205—

Reasoning Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 40.5 (#55), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14701148
NYT Connections (extended)87.2%—
CritPt8%—
Chess Puzzles26%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles18%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA37.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.05—

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14751164
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 425.6%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions72.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202596.1%—
ProofBench16%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond90.8%28.8%
LMArena Expert14911136
SimpleQA Verified34.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 23.9%—
Furniture Assembly21.7%—
LMArena Document1451—

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14461135
LMArena Chinese15211186
LMArena French14711159
LMArena German14501084
LMArena Japanese14431061
LMArena Korean14271050
LMArena Russian14461104
LMArena Spanish14641110

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14511141

Long Context Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14681157

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14551166
LMArena Creative Writing14341137
LMArena Multi-Turn14531160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1725—
EQ-Bench 41202—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.6 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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