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

Across 58 shared benchmarks tracked on Vector Wire, Kimi K2.6 leads on 48 and Qwen3.6 Plus leads on 9 — Kimi K2.6 leads on more. Strengths differ by axis; the table below shows every head-to-head number with provenance.

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Kimi K2.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

MoonshotvsAlibaba58 shared benchmarks48–9 head-to-head

Benchmark	Kimi K2.6	Qwen3.6 Plus
AA Agentic Index	58.7	29
AA Intelligence	45.1	40.5
AA-LCR	76.7	72.3
AA-Omniscience	6.4	2.6
AgentWorldBench - Android	58.9	57.6
AgentWorldBench - MCP	65.2	55.3
AgentWorldBench - OS	60.8	60.3
AgentWorldBench - Overall	53.4	50.8
AgentWorldBench - Search	27.5	21.9
AgentWorldBench - SWE	58.8	59.1
AgentWorldBench - Terminal	52.5	50.6
AgentWorldBench - Web	50.2	50.8
aime_2026	96.4	95.3
arena_elo	1461	1444
arena_text_factuality	1455	1438
Artificial Analysis Coding Index	61.8	54.5
Claw Eval (pass@3)	80.9	58.7
coding_arena_elo	1509	1460
critpt	8	2.9
Finance Agent v2	44.9	40.9
frontiermath_tier_4	14.6	8.3
gdpval	41.4	32
GPQA Diamond	91.1	90.4
HLE	37.5	28.8
HLE (with tools)	54	50.6
hmmt_feb_2026	94.7	87.8
IFBench	76	75.2
imo_answer_bench	86	83.8
livebench	72.2	70.8
livebench_agentic_coding	46.9	41.4
livebench_coding	78.6	78.2
livebench_data_analysis	65.1	69.9
livebench_instruction_following	64.4	58.3
livebench_language	75.1	75
livebench_math	84.3	83.7
livebench_reasoning	79.4	75.8
LiveCodeBench v6	89.6	87.1
mathvision	93.2	88
MCP Atlas	68.1	74.1
mcpmark	55.9	48.2
MMLU-Pro	87.1	88.5
MMMU-Pro	80.1	78.8
OmniScience Accuracy	32.8	26.4
OmniScience Non-Hallucination	60.7	68
OSWorld-Verified	73.1	62.5
scicode	53.5	40.7
simpleqa_verified	38.7	49.1
SWE-bench Multilingual	76.7	73.8
SWE-bench Pro	58.6	56.6
SWE-bench Verified	80.2	78.8
TauBench V3 - Banking	23.3	20.8
Terminal-Bench 2.0	66.7	61.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1	65.9	61.4
Terminal-Bench Hard	43.9	43.9
toolathlon	50	39.8
WideSearch	80.8	74.3
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)	95.9	97.7
τ³-Bench	20.6	70.7

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.