Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2.6 vs QwQ-32B

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI

47.7

Rank #60 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.6 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Kimi K2.6 leads 57.0 to 38.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 96.1% for Kimi K2.6 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index47.739.8
Released2026-04-202024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.95—
Output $ / M tokens$4—
Results tracked5136

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 50.7 (#43), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14881333
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1509—
SciCode53.5%—
WeirdML55.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench1,093—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 21.9 (#137), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
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), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles26%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14701325
Epoch Capabilities Index151.05137.6
NYT Connections (extended)87.2%—
CritPt8%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles18%—
DTBench90.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA37.3%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 57.0 (#41), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202596.1%59.2%
LMArena Math14751359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 425.6%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions72.9%—
ProofBench16%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.0 (#54), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond90.8%65.3%
LMArena Expert14911324
SimpleQA Verified34.9%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.6: 31.6 (#103), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 23.9%—
Furniture Assembly21.7%—
LMArena Document1451—

Multilingual Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 54.9 (#37), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14461305
LMArena Chinese15211378
LMArena French14711336
LMArena German14501313
LMArena Japanese14431262
LMArena Korean14271279
LMArena Russian14461297
LMArena Spanish14641354

Instruction Following Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 76.3 (#43), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14511297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Kimi K2.6: 44.9 (#52), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14681308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.6 leads

Kimi K2.6: 68.5 (#26), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkKimi K2.6QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14551329
LMArena Creative Writing14341288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing17251257
LMArena Multi-Turn14531314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench 41202—
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.6 better than QwQ-32B?

Kimi K2.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.7 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.6 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Kimi K2.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.6 and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.6 has 51 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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