Alibaba
Qwen3.6 Flash
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
- Context
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Input / 1M
- $0.19
- Output / 1M
- $1.13
- Output speed
- —
Accepts
- Text input
- Image input
- Video input
Produces
- Text output
AI model comparison
Compare recorded price, context, output limits, speed, latency, capabilities, and input/output support. Every missing value stays visible, and unsourced benchmarks are excluded.
Qwen3.6 Flash and Kimi K3 both come up when teams are choosing a model for production work, and the honest answer usually depends on your workload rather than a leaderboard. This page puts their published specifications side by side — context window, token pricing, supported inputs and outputs — so you can see where they actually differ.
Alibaba
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks
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Produces
Moonshot AI
Moonshot's frontier model — 2.8 trillion parameters, a million-token window, and thinking effort you can dial up when the task deserves it.
Accepts
Produces
At a glance
This is a directional summary of the values recorded in this directory—not a universal quality verdict. Test the finalists on your own prompts before committing.
Where Qwen3.6 Flash leads in recorded data
Where Kimi K3 leads in recorded data
Context capacity
Higher listed limit
Qwen3.6 Flash:1M
Kimi K3:1.0M
Kimi K3
Maximum output
Higher listed limit
Qwen3.6 Flash:65.5K
Kimi K3:131.1K
Kimi K3
Input price
Lower recorded price
Qwen3.6 Flash:$0.19
Kimi K3:$3.00
Qwen3.6 Flash
Output price
Lower recorded price
Qwen3.6 Flash:$1.13
Kimi K3:$15.00
Qwen3.6 Flash
Output speed
Higher recorded throughput
Qwen3.6 Flash:—
Kimi K3:—
No complete comparison
Time to first token
Lower recorded latency
Qwen3.6 Flash:—
Kimi K3:—
No complete comparison
Intelligence Index
Higher directory index
Qwen3.6 Flash:—
Kimi K3:—
No complete comparison
Evidence
A score appears only when both records include a verified source. It is not treated as a universal ranking.
Specifications
| Specification | Qwen3.6 Flash | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | Moonshot AI |
| Model family | qwen3.6 | kimi-k3 |
| Accepted inputs | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Produced outputs | text | text |
| Context window | 1M | 1.0MRecorded lead |
| Max output | 65.5K | 131.1KRecorded lead |
| Intelligence Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.19Recorded lead | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $1.13Recorded lead | $15.00 |
| Output speed | — | — |
| Time to first token | — | — |
| Reasoning mode | Documented | Documented |
| Tool calling | Documented | Documented |
| Image input | Documented | Documented |
| Audio input | Not documented | Not documented |
| Structured output | Documented | Documented |
| License | Proprietary | Open weights |
| Released | Apr 27, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
Workload guidance
On the published numbers, Kimi K3 accepts the larger context window and Qwen3.6 Flash is cheaper per input token. Which matters more depends on whether your bottleneck is document size or spend — the table above has the exact figures.
Provenance
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Qwen3.6 Flash
Alibaba · model record and recorded source
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · model record and recorded source
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