Models

Kimi K3 vs Qwen Plus 2025 04-28

Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 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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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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Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
Qwen · → text

The Qwen3 series Plus model effectively integrates thinking and non-thinking modes, allowing for mode switching during conversations. Its reasoning abilities significantly surpass those of QwQ, and its general capabilities are markedly superior to Qwen2.5-Plus, reaching state-of-the-art (SOTA) levels among models of the same scale. This version is a snapshot model as of April 28, 2025.

Input$0.11 /M
Output$1.13 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Kimi K3
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
Input /M
$3.00
$0.11
Output /M
$15.00
$1.13
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.02
Context length
1,048,576
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Max output
1,048,576
0
Time to First Token
0.9 s
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Throughput
73.1 tok/s
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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
kimi-k3qwen-plus-2025-04-28
1300138014601540
Overall
13461486
Coding
13801531
Math
13241324
Hard prompts
13531505
Instruction following
13321479
Multi-turn
13531499
Creative writing
13171470
Longer query
13621502
Chinese
13751527
English
13571491

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.

Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
$23.65 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Qwen Plus 2025 04-28?

Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: $1.13/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; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 1380 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Can I call Kimi K3 and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 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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