Compare Kimi K2 Thinking from Moonshot AI and Qwen3.8 Max Preview 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 K2 Thinking
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewKimi K2 Thinking is Moonshot AI's most advanced open-source inference model to date, extending the K2 series into intelligent agent and long-context inference domains. The model is built on the trillion-parameter mixture of experts (MoE) architecture introduced by Kimi K2, activating 32 billion parameters per forward pass and supporting a context window of 256,000 tokens.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Kimi K2 Thinking: $2.192/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; Kimi K2 Thinking: 1467 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Kimi K2 Thinking accepts 262,144 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 262,144 tokens on Kimi K2 Thinking and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Kimi K2 Thinking at 53.2 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Kimi K2 Thinking accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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