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Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score89.496.2
Input Price$0.42/M$3.00/M
Output Price$3.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072943,718
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index85.898.5
ai_index_agentic83.989.5
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
SQL Generation 172 173
Code Review 167 170
Code Completion 133 118
Code Refactoring 164 167
Bug Fixing 181 185
Unit Test Generation 155 157
Code Documentation 143 141
Regex Writing 136 135
CI/CD Pipelines 145 147
Frontend Component Design 147 149
Data Analysis 172 175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 153
ETL Scripting 154 157
JSON Extraction 148 138
Bulk Data Labeling 134 122
OCR / Document Parsing 147 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 147
Long-Document Summarization 160 161
Short-Form Summarization 132 122
Blog Post Writing 141 141

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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