Qwen3.5-4B vs Kimi-K2.6

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
5.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
moonshotai · B · Open weights
Params
1,058.6 B
Context
—
30d
834 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B Kimi-K2.6
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.7 B 1,058.6 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration KimiK25ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,274,172 834,406
Downloads all time 57.2 M 7.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-04-14
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.65
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $3.41
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $4.06
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.15
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 61.8
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 20.5
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 16
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Kimi-K2.6 $4.06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.1 M805 K
Qwen3.5-4B Kimi-K2.6

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K2.6 · fp16 814.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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