Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Kimi-k1.5 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K1.5 was developed by Moonshot AI as an advanced language model with extended context capabilities, designed to handle long documents and conversations. Built to excel at tasks requiring comprehension of extensive information, it represents Moonshot's approach to long-context language understanding.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
6 months newer

Kimi-k1.5
Moonshot AI
2025-01-20

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Kimi-k1.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Kimi-k1.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita

Kimi-k1.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Kimi-k1.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507