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Kimi K3 vs Qwen Image 2.0 Pro

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.0-pro
ProviderMoonshotAlibaba
Family
Modalitytextimage
Context window1,048,576 tok
Max output32,768 tok
Released2026-07-162026-09-17
Input price$3.00 /1M$0.075 /img
Output price$15.00 /1M
Cache read
Toolsyes
Streamingyes
Visionyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt caching
Kimi K3
moonshot/kimi-k3
Full spec →

Kimi K3 is Moonshot's flagship 2.8 trillion-parameter model, built on Kimi Delta Attention (a hybrid linear attention mechanism) with Attention Residuals. It offers native visual understanding, always-on reasoning, and a 1M-token context window for long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and deep reasoning tasks.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.0-pro
Full spec →

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Kimi K3
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshot/kimi-k3",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-image-2.0-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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