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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Qwen3.6 27B
Kimi K3 vs Qwen3.6 27B
Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen3.6 27B 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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Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen · text, image, video → text
The Qwen3.6 series 27B native vision-language Dense model. Compared with the 3.5-27B, the model notably improves Agentic coding capability and further enhances STEM and reasoning abilities; on the visual modality side, spatial intelligence, object localization and detection capabilities are significantly strengthened, and video understanding, document OCR, and visual agent capabilities have steadily improved.
Input$0.42 /M
Output$2.53 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Kimi K3
Qwen3.6 27B
Input /M
$3.00
$0.42
Output /M
$15.00
$2.53
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.42
Context length
1,048,576
254,000
Max output
1,048,576
64,000
Time to First Token
0.9 s
1.0 s
Throughput
73.1 tok/s
41.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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April 22, 2026
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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Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
Qwen3.6 27B
$63.30 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B: $2.53/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 Qwen3.6 27B accepts 254,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 64,000 tokens on Qwen3.6 27B.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Qwen3.6 27B at 41.0 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; Qwen3.6 27B accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call Kimi K3 and Qwen3.6 27B 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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