Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen 3.8 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.
Kimi K3
Qwen 3.8 27BKimi 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.
Qwen3.8-27b is an Alibaba-released dense vision-language model with open-source weights. Qwen3.8 was developed based on the architecture of Qwen3.5, achieving significant improvements in encoding capability, handling professional tasks, research tasks, and tasks that require long-term completion. Qwen3.8-27B integrates these advantages into a compact, easy-to-deploy dense model — a native vision-language model capable of understanding image and video information and featuring flexible cognitive control capabilities. This model can more reliably accomplish complex, multi-step tasks.
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Qwen 3.8 27B: $1.65/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen 3.8 27B: 0.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen 3.8 27B accepts 131,072 input tokens.
Qwen 3.8 27B at 500.6 tok/s and Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen 3.8 27B accepts text, image and video input.
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