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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro vs Kimi-K2.6

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Provider
Alibaba
Moonshot
Family
Kimi
Modality
image
text
Context window
—
262,144 tok
Max output
—
16,384 tok
Released
2026-10-10
2026-04-20
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
—
$0.950 /1M
Output price
—
$4.00 /1M
Cache read
—
$0.160 /1M
Per image
$0.040 /img
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Tools
—
yes
Streaming
—
yes
Vision
—
yes
JSON mode
—
yes
Reasoning
—
yes
Prompt caching
—
yes
Batch API
—
—
Try it
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Open in playground →
Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Full spec →
Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art
Kimi-K2.6
moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Full spec →

Kimi K2.6 is a frontier-scale open-source 1T parameter model with a 262.1k context window, multi-turn tool calling, vision inputs, and structured outputs for agentic workloads.

Strengths
  • Frontier-scale 1T parameters, open-weight
  • ~10× cheaper than Opus
  • Multi-turn tool calling + vision
Use cases
Code agentsLong-document reasoningCost-conscious production

Benchmarks

Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
Kimi-K2.6
HumanEval
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92.7
SWE-Bench
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68.2

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 · alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Kimi-K2.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 · moonshot/kimi-k2.6
GPT-6.1 Sol vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
openai/gpt-6.1-sol · alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
GPT-6.1 Sol vs Kimi-K2.6
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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Kimi-K2.6
anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 · moonshot/kimi-k2.6
Grok 4.7 vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
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Grok 4.7 vs Kimi-K2.6
xai/grok-4.7 · moonshot/kimi-k2.6
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Kimi-K2.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k2.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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