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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs QwQ-32B ·Moonshot AI vs Alibaba

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 vs QwQ-32B — head-to-head comparison

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 profile QwQ-32B profile All comparisons
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — Moonshot AI
Quality
#7 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#157 of 339
51.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#288 of 439
$1.71
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.95 · Out $4.00
Cache hit price
#210 of 322
$0.16
per 1M tokens (−83%)
Context
#264 of 473
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
QwQ-32B — Alibaba
Quality
#29 of 65
69based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 93 and QwQ-32B scores 69 — a 24-point lead for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. They share 2 published evaluations, with MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ahead on 2 and QwQ-32B ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 only, at $1.71 per 1M tokens blended.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); QwQ-32B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 23 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 69 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.71
Output tok/s 52
Context window 262k
Providers 23 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Known Good Index 93 69
Reasoning Index 75
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 · marker = QwQ-32B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 65
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 59

Right-hand figures read MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 / QwQ-32B. MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 leads on 2 of 2, QwQ-32B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Text Arena 1,455 1,329
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,461 1,336
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Input $/1M $0.95
Output $/1M $4.00
Blended $/1M $1.71
Cache read $/1M $0.160
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Context window 262k
Max output tokens 236k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6QwQ-32B
Output tokens/s 52
Time to first token 1.4s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

23 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 blendedMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 tok/s QwQ-32B blendedQwQ-32B tok/s
CoreWeave $1.34 255
BaseTen $1.71 193
Together $2.02 119
ModelRun $1.38 103
Decart $1.00 85
Parasail $1.44 73
Cloudflare $1.71 58
Baidu · first party $1.71 54
Inceptron $1.02 46
SiliconFlow $1.43 43
Fireworks $1.71 42
Chutes $1.28 41
DigitalOcean $1.71 39
Novita $1.45 38
StreamLake $1.08 34
Sail Research $1.75 33
AtlasCloud $1.71 31
Phala $1.97 31
Moonshot AI · first party $1.71 28
Venice $1.44 24
Crusoe $1.40 22
DeepInfra $1.44 20
GMICloud $1.54 8

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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