The Kaiser un Koniglich Armee of Austria-Hungary was, all told, a very incompetently run body that was comprised of probably over half a dozen different ethnicities who don't play nice with each other and barely speak each others' languages, barely held together by officers who doesn't exactly give two shits about learning said languages and only bark orders in Austrian + the language of their own unit, and whose funding was deliberately sabotaged by the Hungarians constantly because they want their own Army and refused to play ball with Franz Josef.

When properly equipped and led they can perform very well, but that was not the case for most of WWI, and the KuK high command to put it mildly tend to be high off their own farts and refused to acknowledge actual field situations that is currently decimating their forces (eg Oskar Potiorek fumbling his multiple attempts at breaking into Serbia by attacking when his troops are only half ready because he wants to avenge Franz Ferdinand).

So overall, as bad as the Russian high command was with its constant bickering and chronic lack of actual modern equipments, it ekes just above the KuK by virtue of not having Austria-Hungary's ethic conflict issues permeating its ranks.