[seanw265]

Kimi K2.6 also released today. I think it's fair to compare the two models.

Qwen appears to be much more expensive:

- Qwen: $1.3 in / $7.8 out

- Kimi: $0.95 in / $4 out

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The announcement posts only share two overlapping benchmark results. Qwen appears to score slightly lower on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0.

Qwen:

- Teminal-Bench 2.0: 65.4

- SWE-Bench Pro: 57.3

Kimi:

- Terminal-Bench 2.0: 66.8

- SWE-Bench Pro: 58.6

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Different models have different strong suits, and benchmarks don't cover everything. But from a numbers perspective, Kimi looks much more appealing.

[archon810]

I wonder if this means a better Cursor Composer model update is coming, since it builds on top of Kimi K2.

[2001zhaozhao]

Cursor would have to run their RL pipeline all over again if they wanted to build a new Composer on K2.6, so almost definitely not.

[archon810]

Why wouldn't they? If they can tout improvements over Composer 2, it'll be worth the training cost.

[mchusma]

i think as the pricing has gone up on the Chinese models it has made them less appealing, and with the introduction of Gemma-4 not many are at the pareto frontier (also in my experience, not just the stats): https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/overall?viewBy=plot

[chrisss395]

FWIW in my recent testing I couldn't find a better model than Gemma 4 31B for the price (openrouter only). My use case was taking discussions and identifying business ideas, so somewhat conceptual problem solving type thing.