Which is better, Kimi K2.6 or Qwen3.5 2B?

Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3.5 2B

22 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 22 shared benchmarks, Kimi K2.6 scores higher on 22 and Qwen3.5 2B on 0. The widest gap is TauBench V3 - Banking, where Kimi K2.6 scores 23.3 against 2.5.

MOONSHOTVSALIBABA22 SHARED22–0 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkKimi K2.6MARGINQwen3.5 2B

AA Agentic Index58.70.8

AA Intelligence44.26.9

AA-LCR8125.6

AA-Omniscience6.4-60.2

Artificial Analysis Coding Index61.82.9

critpt80

gdpval50.40

Global-MMLU-Lite88.464.5

GPQA Diamond91.151.6

HLE37.55

IFBench7641.3

MMLU-Pro88.166.5

MMMU-Pro80.143

multichallenge63.133.7

OmniScience Accuracy32.88.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination60.725.8

scicode53.57.2

TauBench V3 - Banking23.32.5

Terminal-Bench 2.167.23

Terminal-Bench Hard43.93.8

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)95.981.6

τ³-Bench23.16.2

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.

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MoonshotKimi K2.5 Kimi K3 Kimi K2 Instruct

Across the fieldQwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview Qwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Qwen3.5 4B Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

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AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldKimi K2.5 o3 GPT-5.1 Claude Opus 5 Gemma 4 26B A4B Kimi K3 Llama 3.1 Instruct 405B DeepSeek-V3.2