Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo vs Qwen3 Max

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo Moonshot AI

45.4

Rank #63 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3 Max in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads 31.4 to 22.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 20% for Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and 4% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index45.443.5
Released2025-11-062025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 38.1 (#166), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14541456
LMArena WebDev1322—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: —, Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 31.4 (#72), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles20%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14281448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
DTBench—82.1%
LMCA—28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.41

Math Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 45.5 (#62), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202583.1%73.3%
LMArena Math14291447
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 50.9 (#64), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond84.2%72.6%
LMArena Expert14391457
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 51.6 (#104), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English13981429
LMArena Chinese14571479
LMArena French14251450
LMArena German13901463
LMArena Japanese13561399
LMArena Korean13291397
LMArena Russian13901428
LMArena Spanish14071463

Instruction Following Too close to call

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 74.2 (#103), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14031420

Long Context Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 43.2 (#99), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14151439
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo: 60.2 (#99), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkKimi K2 Thinking TurboQwen3 Max
LMArena Text14151439
LMArena Creative Writing13731401
LMArena Multi-Turn14141446

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo better than Qwen3 Max?

Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.4 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo and Qwen3 Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2 Thinking Turbo has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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