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K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B (IFM) and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct (Qwen) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 10 September 2026

As of 10 September 2026, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#60 vs #61).

Which should you choose?

Choose K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B if…

  • you want the more recently listed model — K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B was listed 1 September 2026, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 23 September 2025.

Choose Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #60 against #61 (55.5 vs 55.2 points).
  • you want provider choice — 5 listed API providers against 0.

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
FieldK2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4BIFMQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen
ModelCap Index position#61#60
Index score55.255.5
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.21
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$1.90
Context window— tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—33K
API providers listed05
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText, Image
First listed1 September 202623 September 2025
PublisherIFMQwen

Evidence: global-corpus-prior over 183 held-out anchors (59%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 8 rows (41%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 8 rows; optimism haircut 1.82 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 2.4 toward the measured corpus · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Public benchmark boards where K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has a published result
BoardK2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4BQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)—14651451–1478Only one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—35.1%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3 VL 235B A22B":reasoning=falseOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—6.6%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3 VL 235B A22B":reasoning=falseOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: common questions

Is K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B better than Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 10 September 2026: #60 against #61. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B cheaper than Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct open-weight models?

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B: Open weights. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B and 5 for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 10 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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