# Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 37
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Kimi K2.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6 Plus leads overall 53.78 to 53.05.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 83.3 for Kimi K2.5 and 69.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepPlanning in Agentic, with scores of 14.4% and 41.5%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.05 | 53.78 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 68 | 49 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 40.7 (Estimated · #66/128)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 34.4 (Supported · #83/128)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | 58.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | 57.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| τ³-bench results | 65.7% | 70.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| DeepSearchQA | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.4% | 41.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Toolathlon | 27.8% | 39.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MCP Atlas | 29.5% | 48.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | 74.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | 74.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| BFCL v4 | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | 50.60% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | 18.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.5 (Estimated · #68/150)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 40 (Supported · #66/150)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 78.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | 87.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 56.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | 73.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 32% | 37.9% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| 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 K2.5 public-lane score: 72.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 74.7 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | 62% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#32/54)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 76.1 (#21/54)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 84.3% | 86.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.5% | 78.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| RealWorldQA | 81.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 88.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 83.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 84.2% | 88.0% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| We-Math | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 71.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.6% | 84.0% | Kimi K2.5 |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 77.5% | 81.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 51.4 (Estimated · #75/184)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #66/184)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | 90.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | 71.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | 88.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.5% | 94.5% | Tie |
| C-Eval | 94% | 93.3% | Kimi K2.5 |
| HLE | 30.1% | 28.8% | Kimi K2.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 87.3 (#8/17)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/17)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | 84.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | 57.9% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| INCLUDE | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | 43.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 85.8 (#48/148)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.8 (#47/148)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | 94.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.5 (#6/12)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 95.3% | Kimi K2.5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 96.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 95.4% | 96.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 91.1% | 94.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.1% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMAnswerBench | 81.8% | 83.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 38.246% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 83.3 for Kimi K2.5 and 69.5 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K2.5 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K2.5 currently has 68 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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