Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)
75
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
78
Pick Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+10.8 difference
Coding
+22.7 difference
Knowledge
+13.4 difference
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning)
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
$0.6 / $3
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128K
256K
Pick Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 78 versus 75. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.4 against 54.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 50.8% to 65.4%. Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning).
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 78 to 75. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 50.8% and 65.4%.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.3 versus 73.9. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.8 versus 54.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench Hard is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.4 versus 54.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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