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
Long-context chat assistant from Moonshot AI
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Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family: open Qwen3 weights plus closed Qwen3.7-Max
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host |
| Paid from | API from $0.95/$4.00 per M tokens (input/output; OpenRouter ~$0.75/$3.50); free web tier | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 36M+ MAU (as of late 2024) | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally |
| Founded | 2023 | — |
| Maker | — | Alibaba Group |
| Verdict | Kimi is Moonshot AI's consumer front-end for the open-weight K-series models, and in 2026 it's no longer a China-only story: kimi.com, the Kimi Code CLI and an English API platform give it a real international footprint,... |
Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the open-weight ecosystem — the Qwen3 line ships freely on Hugging Face from small dense models up to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding,... |
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