Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI · → text
Input$0.548 /M
Output$2.192 /M
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Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking from Moonshot AI and Qwen3.8 Max 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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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.548
$1.69
Output /M
$2.192
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
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August 3, 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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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
alicloud-kimi-k2-thinkingqwen3.8-max
1360140014401480
Overall
14181482
Coding
14671467
Math
14161416
Hard prompts
14371437
Instruction following
13901390
Multi-turn
14041404
Creative writing
13821382
Longer query
14031403
Chinese
14541454
English
14231423
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.
Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking
$65.76 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking, Qwen3.8 Max?
Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking: $2.192/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Can I call Alicloud Kimi K2 Thinking and Qwen3.8 Max 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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