$ diff qwen-3-8-27b kimi-k3
Qwen 3.8 27B vs Kimi K3
Values come from Qwen 3.8 27B and Kimi K3, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Alibaba QwenQwen 3.8 27B
- context
- 262K
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $3
- $/M out
- $15
What actually differs
- Context window
- Kimi K3 takes 1M against 262K — 3.8× more room in a single request.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — Qwen 3.8 27B under Apache 2.0, Kimi K3 under Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- Qwen 3.8 27B shipped 29 days after Kimi K3 (2026-08-14 vs 2026-07-16).
Full spec
| Attribute | Qwen 3.8 27B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Alibaba Qwen | Moonshot AI |
| Released | 2026-08-14 | 2026-07-16 |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens (native; reported extensible to ~1M via YaRN) | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | not recorded | $0.30/M cache-hit input · $3.00/M cache-miss input · $15.00/M output |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable) |
| Availability | Hugging Face (`Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`, `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8`), ModelScope | Kimi Code, Kimi app, Kimi API; weights on Hugging Face (`moonshot-ai/kimi-k3`, released 2026-07-27) |