Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen3 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.
Kimi K3
Qwen3 MaxKimi 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.
The Tongyi Qianwen 3 series Max model has undergone special upgrades in intelligent agent programming and tool invocation compared to the preview version. The officially released model this time reaches SOTA level in the field and is adapted to more complex intelligent agent scenarios.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
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Qwen3 Max: $1.8032/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 1531; Qwen3 Max: 1475 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Kimi K3: 0.9s 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 Max accepts 262,144 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 65,536 tokens on Qwen3 Max.
Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s and Qwen3 Max at 26.1 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; Qwen3 Max accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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