# Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K3.1 Pro and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-3-1-pro-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 23, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K3.1 Pro leads overall 82 to 53.42.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro and 75.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 70% and 28.8%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Pending | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 53.42 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 42 | 49 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #86/132)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 65.70% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 38.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam (CLI) | 44.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 67.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Frontier Finance | 58.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HANDBOOK.md | 44.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Business Operation | 37.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Financial Modeling | 57.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Financial Research | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench Hard (tools) | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 20.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 41.5% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 39.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 48.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 50.60% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #68/153)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (binary) | 31.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench 3.0 Long-horizon | 61.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| sweMarathon | 51.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.2 | 36.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 73.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 37.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 73.9 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: 98 (#1/56)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 75.9 (#22/56)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 67.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.728 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.927 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 84.1% | 78.8% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 93.4% | 81.5% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 89% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 95.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 39.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 63.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (Gemini judge) | 34.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf w/ Python (Gemini judge) | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.8 (Supported · #68/187)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 94.2% | 90.4% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| GPQA-D | 94.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 70% | 28.8% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE w/o tools | 51.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench | 5.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 57.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#49/153)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 96.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.246% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K3.1 Pro or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Kimi K3.1 Pro is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K3.1 Pro and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro and 75.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K3.1 Pro cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K3.1 Pro currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 49 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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