Compare Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI and Qwen3.8 Max (free) 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 (free)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.
Qwen3.8 Max is available for free on AIHubMix as part of GMI Cloud’s promotional campaign. The offer lasts for 30 days from launch or until the campaign credits are exhausted, whichever comes first.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max (free) accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max (free).
Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max (free) accepts text, image and video input.
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