# Kimi K3 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct in 4 of 4 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, and Factuality.

Kimi K3: $4.109999999999999 per 1M blended tokens.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct: $0.6325 per 1M blended tokens.

Kimi K3: open weights.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct in General LLM at #13 against #134.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct in Reasoning at #7 against #123.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct in Long context at #8 against #130.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct in Factuality at #22 against #130.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Kimi K3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 VL 235B A22b Instruct is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Oct 1, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).