# Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K3.1 Pro and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-3-1-pro-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: October 23, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 15
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.8 Max 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 69.68.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro and 92 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is OSWorld 2.0 in Agentic, with scores of 79.6% and 19.4%.
- Qwen3.8 Max 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 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Pending | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 69.68 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 42 | 66 |
| 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
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.4 (Supported · #14/132)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | 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% | 56.2% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| BrowseComp | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 43.2% | 52.4% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| 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% | 19.4% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| 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 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 67.4% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | Coming soon | 70.5% | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | Coming soon | 0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #38/153)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 75.5% | 56.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 67.7% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 25.7 fixes | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 66.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: 98 (#1/56)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 92 (#2/56)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | 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% | 82.3% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 93.4% | 93.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 89% | 88.4% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| Chartography (tools) | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 95.4% | 91.3% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| ZeroBench | 39.0% | 24.0% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 63.0% | 49.0% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| 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% | 63.5% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 95.2% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.5 (Supported · #25/187)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 94.2% | 92.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| GPQA-D | 94.2% | 92.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE | 70% | 43.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE w/o tools | 51.1% | 43.6% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| Kimi Hallu Bench | 5.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 94.7 (#2/153)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 74.737% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 46.341% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K3.1 Pro or Qwen3.8 Max?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K3.1 Pro and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro and 92 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### 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 Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 66 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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