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
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Qwen3 VL Plus
Kimi K3 vs Qwen3 VL Plus
Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen3 VL Plus from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
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Qwen3 VL Plus
Qwen · text, image, video → text
The Qwen3 series visual understanding model achieves an effective fusion of thinking and non-thinking modes. Its visual agent capabilities reach world-class levels on public test sets such as OS World. This version features comprehensive upgrades in visual coding, spatial perception, and multimodal reasoning; visual perception and recognition abilities are greatly enhanced, supporting ultra-long video understanding.
Input$0.14 /M
Output$1.37 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Kimi K3
Qwen3 VL Plus
Input /M
$3.00
$0.14
Output /M
$15.00
$1.37
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.03
Context length
1,048,576
256,000
Max output
1,048,576
32,000
Time to First Token
0.9 s
2.3 s
Throughput
73.1 tok/s
66.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
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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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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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Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Qwen3 VL Plus
$28.77 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Qwen3 VL Plus?
Qwen3 VL Plus: $1.37/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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?
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3 VL Plus accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 32,000 tokens on Qwen3 VL Plus.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Qwen3 VL Plus at 66.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3 VL Plus accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Kimi K3 and Qwen3 VL Plus 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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