Kimi K3 (Low) vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: Kimi K3 (Low) by Kimi or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

KimiKimi K3 (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 30.10
Total cost: $1190

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Pick Kimi K3 (Low)

Qwen3.7 Max vs Kimi K3 (Low): 2.0% less intelligence, 91.3% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 70.9% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Kimi K3 (Low)	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	30.1	29.5	−2.0% Qwen3.7 Max is 2.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,190.42	$2,277.12	+91.3% Qwen3.7 Max is 91.3% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	57.21s	16.67s	−70.9% Qwen3.7 Max is 70.9% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$3.00 / $15.0	$2.50 / $7.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

Open this matchup in the interactive picker Kimi K3 (Low): what beats it Qwen3.7 Max: what beats it

Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Kimi K3 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
Qwen3.7 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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