Head to head

Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Qwen 3.8 Max

Price, context, inputs and filters. No benchmarks theatre.

Qwen 3.8 Max costs 1.1× less per message.

Both hold the same amount of context.

Fact

Made by

Moonshot AI

Alibaba

Content tier

Open

Intelligence

Brilliant

Price per message

~6.11 credits≈ 16 messages for 1 €

~5.33 credits≈ 18 messages for 1 €

Context window

1M tokens≈ 1,613 pages of text in one go

1M tokens≈ 1,538 pages of text in one go

Reads

Text, Images, Video

Writes

Text

Tool use

Yes - search, memory, code and more

Served via

OpenRouter, Unbottled AI

Status

Current

A typical message: 16K tokens in, 1.5K out. Short replies cost less. 1 credit = 0.01 €.