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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Vendorqwenmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.996.9
Input Price$2.00/M$3.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index95.898.5
ai_index_agentic96.489.5
ai_index_coding100.0100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxMoonshotAI: Kimi K3
SQL Generation 175 173
Code Review 170 170
Code Completion 120 118
Code Refactoring 167 167
Bug Fixing 186 185
Unit Test Generation 157 157
Code Documentation 143 141
Regex Writing 137 135
CI/CD Pipelines 147 147
Frontend Component Design 149 149
Data Analysis 176 175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 153
ETL Scripting 157 157
JSON Extraction 140 138
Bulk Data Labeling 125 122
Long-Document Summarization 162 161
Short-Form Summarization 124 122
Blog Post Writing 142 141

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

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