// COMPARISON

Kimi K2 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of Kimi K2 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B across 63 evaluations. Kimi K2 leads on the most benchmarks (45).

The models

Leads 45
Language Open (Restricted)
Params
1T
Context
Released
Jul 2025

Kimi K2 is our latest Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in.

Full Kimi K2 specs →
Language Open (Restricted)
Params
235B
Context
Released
Apr 2025

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, ac.

Full Qwen3-235B-A22B specs →

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark Kimi K2 Qwen3-235B-A22B
agentic
BrowseComp 14.1%
BrowseComp-Zh 28.8
FinSearchComp-T3 10.4
GAIA 57.7
Seal-0 25.2
TAU-bench Airline 51.2%
TAU-bench Retail 73.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 44.5%
WebWalkerQA 63
xbench-DeepSearch 50
code
Codeforces Elo 1,574 2,056
FullStackBench 54%
HumanEval 87.1%
LiveCodeBench 48.95%
LiveCodeBench v5 70.7%
LiveCodeBench v6 56.1%
MBPP 89.96%
SWE-bench Verified 69.2%
SciCode 30.7%
coding
Aider Benchmark 85.34
Multi-SWE-bench 33.5
MultiPL-E 73.54
OJ-Bench (cpp) 25.5
SWE-Bench Multilingual 55.9
general
AlignBench v1.1 8.94
ArenaHard 96.1%
ArenaHard v2 69.88
C-Eval 91.12% 89.6%
Creative Writing v3 84.6
IFEval 90.99% 83.4%
LiveBench 77.1
Longform Writing 62.8
MMLU 89.5%
MMLU-Pro 81.9%
MMLU-Redux 92.7% 92.7%
MMMLU 84.3%
Multi-IF 71.9
MultiChallenge 54.1%
WritingBench 8.03
knowledge
INCLUDE 78.7
long-context
Frames 72
math
AIME 2024 67.24% 86.68%
AIME 2025 75.2% 81.5%
CNMO 2024 68.92%
HMMT February 2025 70.4% 61.88%
IMOAnswerBench 45.8
MATH-500 98%
MT-AIME 2024 80.8
Omni-MATH 62.42
Omni-MATH-HARD 56.91%
PolyMath-en 54.7
UGMathBench 69.97
reasoning
ARC-AGI-1 22.19
AutoLogi 89
BBEH 34.83
FinanceReasoning 84.83
GPQA Diamond 74.2% 71.1%
Humanity's Last Exam 21.7% 14.23%
MLogiQA 77.1
ZebraLogic 85.5% 80.3%
safety
HealthBench 43.8%
SimpleQA 31%
tool-use
BFCL v3 71.1% 70.8%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

Frequently asked questions

Which model is best, Kimi K2 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B?

Across the 63 benchmarks compared here, Kimi K2 leads on the most (45). The right choice still depends on your task — check the per-benchmark table above for coding, reasoning and math.

Which of these models is best for coding?

Qwen3-235B-A22B has the strongest result on Codeforces Elo among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared?

This comparison covers 63 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

Where do the benchmark scores come from?

Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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