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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B wins on more metrics (5 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
Intelligence Index37.337.1
Coding Index25.826.6
GPQA Diamond79%83%
Design Arena Elo1293
Speed (tokens/sec)3176
Latency712ms532ms
Input price /M$0.375$0.288
Output price /M$2.02$3.17
Context window262K262K
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVision