Kimi 月之暗面 vs Qwen
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Kimi 月之暗面
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight K3 model with a 1M-token conte...
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Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's LLM family, open weights through to the Qwen3.8-Max fl...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Adagio free plan: 1 concurrent agent task, 2 scheduled tasks, 2 projects and 500MB of project storage | Open weights to self-host; free Qwen Chat; 1M free tokens per model for 90 days in Model Studio's Singapore region |
| Paid from | $19/month (Plus, or $15/month billed annually); API from $0.95 in and $4.00 out per M tokens | From $0.03 per million input tokens (qwen3.7-flash, prompts up to 32K, Singapore region) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Moonshot AI (月之暗面) | Alibaba Cloud |
| Verdict | Kimi earns its place on capability and price. K3 is the largest open-weight model available, with a one-million-token context and weights you can run yourself under a licence that only bites on very large commercial user... |
Qwen is the most practical open-weight family to build on in 2026: Apache 2.0 models from under a billion to hundreds of billions of parameters, and now even the Max-tier flagship available to download. Hosted pricing in... |
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