Kimi K3 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI against Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi K3
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi K3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 19x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Kimi K3
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
15× cheaper
Output
$0.80
19× cheaper
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 15× input, 19× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
55%
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 1.8x more bold
Kimi K3
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
58%Vocabulary55%
21wSentence Length18w
0.46Hedging0.52
3.6Bold6.7
3.4Lists4.3
0.78Emoji1.04
0.89Headings0.92
0.17Transitions0.11
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Research
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