# Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k3-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.7 Max only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K3 leads overall 72.14 to 63.46.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 68.1 for Kimi K3 and 39.3 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench (Vals) in Coding, with scores of 93.4% and 68.8%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K3 also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Pending | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 72.14 | 63.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 48 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 68.1 (Supported · #8/119)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #60/119)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 88.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 91.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 73.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 84.2% | 76.4% | Kimi K3 |
| AutomationBench | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 52.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 37.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpreadsheetBench 2 | 34.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DECK-Bench | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 80.9% | 61.0% | Kimi K3 |
| ApprenticeBench | 18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 64.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 64.27% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 61.4 (Supported · #18/144)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #54/144)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 67.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | 72.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| sweMarathon | 42% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrain Bench | 36.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | 48.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 73.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 57.3% | 53.4% | Kimi K3 |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 25.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.2% | 87.1% | Kimi K3 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 93.4% | 68.8% | Kimi K3 |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 32.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 65.8 (#18/27)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 94.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 60.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 89.4 (#1/49)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 81.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 97.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 23.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WorldVQA ForceAnswer | 51.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench | 91.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Kimi K3
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: 67.9 (Supported · #18/171)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #41/171)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.5% | 92.4% | Kimi K3 |
| GPQA-D | 93.5% | 92.4% | Kimi K3 |
| HLE | 56% | 41.4% | Kimi K3 |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.9% | 90.2% | Kimi K3 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.0% | 89.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/16)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 87% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 89.2 (#17/125)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 52.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 81.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K3 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K3 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Kimi K3 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K3 and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 68.1 for Kimi K3 and 39.3 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K3 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K3 currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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