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Qwen 3.8 Flash Next vs Kimi K3

Both are SOTA right now. Each row below is one board’s call on the two, and the marked figure is the one that board places higher. No row is added to another, so there is no overall winner: the boards measure different things, and where they split, that is the finding.

Board Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Kimi K3
Artificial Analysis LLM Leaderboard Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 39.8 No. 24 of 372 43.6 No. 18 of 372
Arena — Agent Overall -0.007 No. 35 of 49 0.042 No. 14 of 49
Artificial Analysis Coding Agents Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index — 0.519 No. 15 of 22
HarnessTax — SWE-bench Lite SWE-bench Lite — 76.7% No. 4 of 7
HarnessTax — Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0 — 73.3% No. 4 of 7
Arena — Code Overall 1637 No. 16 of 109 1658 No. 13 of 109
Arena — Text Overall (style control) — 1488 No. 16 of 306

Each rank is the board’s own: the rank it publishes, or its place in its own order where it publishes none. The bar is how much of that board the model is ahead of. Scores from different boards cannot be compared.

At a glance

Developer Alibaba Kimi
Weights open open
Released 2026-08-262026-07-16
Price Blended Price, USD per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output) $0.23$6.00
Value: where it sits on the kill line SOTA SOTA

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next →Kimi K3 → How the kill line is drawn →

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next against the other SOTA models

Kimi K3 against the other SOTA models