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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score88.691.5
Input Price$2.00/M$3.00/M
Output Price$6.00/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_index77.482.9
ai_index_agentic82.383.9
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
SQL Generation 171 170
Code Review 165 167
Code Completion 119 118
Code Refactoring 163 164
Bug Fixing 180 181
Unit Test Generation 153 154
Code Documentation 141 140
Regex Writing 135 133
CI/CD Pipelines 144 144
Frontend Component Design 146 146
Data Analysis 170 171
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 153
ETL Scripting 153 154
JSON Extraction 139 137
Bulk Data Labeling 125 122
OCR / Document Parsing 146 146
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 146
Short-Form Summarization 122 121
Blog Post Writing 139 139

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

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