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Kimi K2vsQwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507 leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507 has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 3
Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
262K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Moonshot AI · Qwen
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI · released 2025-07-11
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Context
128K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
18 · 7 core
Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
Qwen · released 2025-07-21
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Context
262K
Max out
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Input /1M
$0.23 ↗
Output /1M
$0.92 ↗
Cached /1M
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Scores
17 · 6 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkKimi K2Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507ΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
MMLU-Pro81.1% ↗83% ↗-1.9 ptQwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
Aider-Polyglot60% ↗57.3% ↗+2.7 ptKimi K2
MMLU-Redux92.7% ↗93.1% ↗-0.4 ptQwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
SimpleQA31% ↗54.3% ↗-23.3 ptQwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)39.4% ↗38.7% ↗+0.7 ptKimi K2
Only Kimi K2 reports · 13
AIME 202549.5% ↗not reported——
GPQA-Diamond75.1% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)2% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (Text Only)4.7% ↗not reported——
IFEval (Prompt Strict)89.8% ↗not reported——
LiveCodeBench v6 (Aug 24 - May 25)53.7% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)26.3% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Multilingual (Agentic Coding, single attempt)47.3% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Agentic Coding, single attempt)65.8% ↗not reported——
Tau2 airline56.5% ↗not reported——
Tau2 retail70.6% ↗not reported——
Tau2 telecom65.8% ↗not reported——
TerminalBench (Inhouse Framework)30% ↗not reported——
Only Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507 reports · 12
LMArena Elonot reported1422.4 ↗——
AIME25not reported70.3% ↗——
ARC-AGInot reported41.8% ↗——
Arena-Hard v2not reported79.2% ↗——
BFCL-v3not reported70.9% ↗——
GPQAnot reported77.5% ↗——
HMMT25not reported55.4% ↗——
IFEvalnot reported88.7% ↗——
LiveBench 20241125not reported75.4% ↗——
LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05)not reported51.8% ↗——
SuperGPQAnot reported62.6% ↗——
TAU2-Retailnot reported74.6% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Kimi K2 minus Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecKimi K2Qwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507Edge
Context window128K tokens262K tokensQwen3 235B-A22B Instruct 2507
Max output———
Input price / 1M—$0.23 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$0.92 ↗—
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$1.15—
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-07-112025-07-21—
Cited benchmark scores1817—
Reliability

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