Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02 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
Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02Kimi 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-Max-0902 (also known as qwen3.8-max-2026-09-02) is a snapshot version of Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's qwen3.8-max. It pushes encoding depth further, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-level 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.
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Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02: $5.07/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02: 2.6s 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 Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02 accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 128,000 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02.
Kimi K3 at 65.6 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02 at 31.5 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; Qwen3.8 Max 2026 09-02 accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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