Noometry

Model comparison

Kimi K3 vs Qwen-VL Max

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Kimi K3 leads 37.8 to 32.3.
  • Qwen-VL Max is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Kimi K3Qwen-VL Max
ProviderMoonshot AIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index59.535.9
Released2026-07-162024-01-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output1.05M8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$15$3.20
Results tracked533

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
DeepSWE68.5%—
FrontierCode44.2%—
LMArena WebDev1654—
FrontierSWE25.9%—
SciCode59.5%—
WeirdML82.6%—
LMArena Coding1508—
ALE-Bench1,524—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
APEX-Agents50.6%—
τ²-bench Banking37.1%—
PostTrainBench32%—
GBAEval48.3%—
GDP.pdf19%—
Vending-Bench 25,165—

Reasoning Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
SimpleBench60.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.6%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles39%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA52.7%—
Surface Evolver Bench95%—
Epoch Capabilities Index157.45—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Not comparable

Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)72.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 439%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions87.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.2%—
ProofBench87%—
LMArena Math1491—

Knowledge Not comparable

Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
GPQA Diamond93.1%—
SimpleQA Verified50.6%—
LMArena Expert1521—

Multimodal Kimi K3 leads

Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70), Qwen-VL Max: 32.3 (#101)

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision—1213
Video-MME—51.3%
Blueprint-Bench 229.5%—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Non-English1466—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1491—
LMArena German1488—
LMArena Japanese1487—
LMArena Korean1458—
LMArena Russian1482—
LMArena Spanish1472—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1483—

Long Context Not comparable

Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Longer Query1494—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkKimi K3Qwen-VL Max
LMArena Text1476—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2082—
EQ-Bench 41339—
LMArena Multi-Turn1488—

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Qwen-VL Max?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#15); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Kimi K3 lists at $3 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K3 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K3 and Qwen-VL Max share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K3 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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