Models

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Kimi K3

Output tokens cost $1.10 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $0.27 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.27 per million on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and $0.30 per million on Kimi K3. Context lengths are 131,000 tokens on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 1.1s on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 0.9s on Kimi K3. Measured output throughput is 41.7 tok/s on Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and 73.1 tok/s on Kimi K3. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct scores 1466 and Kimi K3 scores 1531.

QwenBai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructMoonshot AIKimi K3
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Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen · → text

The Qwen3 series open-source models include hybrid models, thinking models, and non-thinking models, with both reasoning capabilities and general abilities reaching industry SOTA levels at the same scale.

Input$0.27 /M
Output$1.10 /M
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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.

Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Kimi K3
Input /M
$0.27
$3.00
Output /M
$1.10
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.27
$0.30
Context length
131,000
1,048,576
Max output
0
1,048,576
Time to First Token
1.1 s
0.9 s
Throughput
41.7 tok/s
73.1 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
bai-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructkimi-k3
1340140014601520
Overall
14151486
Coding
14661531
Math
14111411
Hard prompts
14401505
Instruction following
14141479
Multi-turn
14261499
Creative writing
13621470
Longer query
14251502
Chinese
14551527
English
14271491

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
$32.88 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, Kimi K3?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $1.10/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Kimi K3: 1531; Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 1466 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Kimi K3: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts 131,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 41.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

Can I call Bai Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Kimi K3 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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