Models

Kimi K3 vs Qwen Turbo

Output tokens cost $15.00 per million on Kimi K3 and $0.09 per million on Qwen Turbo. Input tokens cost $3.00 per million on Kimi K3 and $0.05 per million on Qwen Turbo. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.30 per million on Kimi K3 and $0.01 per million on Qwen Turbo.

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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 Turbo
Qwen · → text

The Qwen series model with the fastest speed and lowest cost, suitable for simple tasks. This model is a dynamically updated version, and updates will not be announced in advance. The model's overall Chinese and English abilities have been significantly improved, human preference alignment has been greatly enhanced, inference capability and complex instruction understanding have been substantially strengthened, performance on difficult tasks is better, and mathematics and coding skills have been significantly improved. The current version is qwen-turbo-2025-04-28.

Input$0.05 /M
Output$0.09 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Kimi K3
Qwen Turbo
Input /M
$3.00
$0.05
Output /M
$15.00
$0.09
Cache read /M
$0.30
$0.01
Context length
1,048,576
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Max output
1,048,576
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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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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Qwen Turbo
$4.14 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Kimi K3, Qwen Turbo?

Qwen Turbo: $0.09/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Can I call Kimi K3 and Qwen Turbo 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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