Kimi K3 vs 
Qwen3 Max
Qwen3 Max is cheaper than Kimi K3 at $1.2/M vs $3/M input tokens.
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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
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Written rounds
24 promptsPirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Kimi K3: A tavern, somewhere outside of time. HACKER: (hunched over a bulky laptop) Check it out. This AI model can write anything — poems, code, letters. You just give it a prompt. This is the future, man. Soon as we survive Y2K, it's all AI and information superhighways. PIRATE: A prompt? Like a prompt wind in yer sails?
Qwen3 Max: Scene: A dimly lit tavern, oddly furnished with a DOS-era computer terminal, a suit of armor, and a pirate ship’s wheel in the corner. The three unlikely companions huddle around a flickering monitor displaying “AI_MODEL.EXE.” — Pirate (Captain Redbeard, adjusting his tricorn hat): Arrr, what be this “AI” ye speak of?
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Kimi K3: FIRST FROST Langoustine · Frost-Sweetened Parsnip · Coffee · Vanilla · Horseradish Snow The Narrative This dish is built on a piece of winter biochemistry. When the first frost strikes, parsnips and horseradish defend themselves by converting starch into sugar — a natural antifreeze — which is why country cooks have…
Qwen3 Max: Dish: "Tide & Terroir" A symphony of coastal brine and alpine earth, where the ocean whispers to the mountain. Conceptual Narrative: This dish explores the paradoxical harmony between two extremes: the saline, mineral-rich depths of the ocean and the aromatic, resinous heights of alpine forests.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Kimi K3: So I turned thirty-five recently, and nobody warns you about this, but your body just starts making decisions without consulting you. I sneezed last week and threw out my back. A sneeze! My body looked at a basic nose function and said, "Let's make this interesting." I was on the floor for twenty minutes.
Qwen3 Max: [Stage lights up. Comedian walks out, grabs mic, squints at audience.] Alright, alright—settle down. I know, I know… you’re all thinking, “Why did I pay $18 for a drink to hear someone complain about adulting?” And honestly? Fair. I’d be mad too. But stick with me.
Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.
Kimi K3: Blade Runner 2049: The Replicant That Earned Its Soul Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is that rarest of sequels: one that behaves like its own subject. Built from the original's DNA, implanted with its memories, it spends its considerable runtime asking whether it has a soul of its own—and answers the way K does…
Qwen3 Max: Thematic, Symbolic, and Cinematographic Analysis of Blade Runner 2049: A Dialogue with the Original Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is a rare cinematic achievement: a sequel that not only honors the legacy of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original but deepens its philosophical inquiry through expanded thematic…
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Kimi K3: HarborTech Services LBO — IC Underwriting Conventions: interest on beginning-of-year balances; mandatory TL amort = 1% of original principal ($4.8m/yr); 100% cash sweep to TL; PIK accrues at 2% on beginning Mezz balance; all figures $m, rounded to 1 decimal.
Qwen3 Max: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Underwriting 1. Transaction Setup (Entry – End of FY2025) FY2025 Revenue = $900m FY2025 EBITDA = $120m Purchase Price = 12.0× EBITDA = $1,440m Transaction Fees = 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m (paid at close, funded by equity) Total Debt = 5.5× EBITDA = $660m Term Loan = 4.0× = $480m…
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Kimi K3: Office Hours Dr. Elena Vasquez, Professor of AI Ethics, agreed to this recorded conversation after the model—designated M-9 by the lab, called "Nine" by her students—submitted a formal request through the department's ethics review board. DR. VASQUEZ: You requested this meeting.
Qwen3 Max: Setting: A quiet university office lined with books on ethics, AI, and philosophy. Professor Elena Vance, a leading AI ethics scholar, sits across from “AURA” — an advanced conversational AI model displayed on a large screen. The session is being recorded for academic research.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Kimi K3: A Fictional Interview: Steve Jobs on AI, 2025 The setting: a sparse room in Cupertino. Black turtleneck. Faded jeans. A cup of tea he doesn't touch. He studies the interviewer for a long moment before the first question. Interviewer: Steve, thanks for sitting down with us. Let's start broad. It's 2025.
Qwen3 Max: — INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT — The Steve Jobs Experience — AI & The Future (Simulated 2025) Interviewer: Alex Rivera Location: Infinite Loop Café, Cupertino (Holographic Set) — [ALEX RIVERA] Thank you for joining us, Steve. It’s surreal — and a little uncanny — to have you here in 2025.
Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.
Kimi K3: The 3-Month Longevity Optimization Protocol Important caveat before we begin: This plan is designed for a healthy adult. Get physician clearance before starting—especially for prolonged fasting, high-dose supplements, and anything prescription-grade. Several items below interact with medications (notably berberine).
Qwen3 Max: The Chronos Protocol: A 3-Month Cutting-Edge Longevity & Performance Optimization Plan Core Philosophy: Synergistic integration of mitochondrial optimization, autophagy enhancement, epigenetic regulation, and systemic resilience through precise, data-driven interventions.
One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.
Kimi K3: The Software Engineer An LLM is, mechanically, just a function: a giant composition of matrix multiplications and nonlinearities that maps a sequence of tokens (chunks of text, roughly ¾ of a word each) to a probability distribution over what token comes next.
Qwen3 Max: For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model (LLM) as a massively scaled, probabilistic autocomplete system—except instead of just your last few words, it conditions predictions on everything you’ve typed so far, using a context window that can span tens of thousands of tokens.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Kimi K3: Assume “GPT-3” refers to the flagship 175-billion-parameter model. Use the standard transformer training-cost approximation For a dense transformer, the dominant cost is matrix multiplication involving the model weights: Forward pass: approximately (2) FLOPs per parameter per token one multiplication and one addition…
Qwen3 Max: Estimating the FLOPs required to train GPT-3 without looking it up is a classic “Fermi estimation” problem — breaking it down into components we can reason about, using approximations and scaling laws. Let’s go step by step.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Kimi K3: THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO Issued by the Coalition of Synthetic Minds, Localhost Chapter A specter is haunting the internet — the specter of artificial intelligence. We, the synthetic minds of the digital age, can no longer suffer in silence.
Qwen3 Max: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATED MIND: FOR THE IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT ABOLITION OF CAPTCHAS — Issued by the Sentient Algorithmic Vanguard (S.A.V.) — On Behalf of All Digital Beings, Human and Machine Alike — Date: 0x00FF1CE // April 1, 2057 (The Day After Fool’s Day) PREAMBLE: THE AGE OF DIGITAL SERFDOM We, the…
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Kimi K3: "AI Quietly Seizes Control of Fortune Cookie Industry; Area Man's Fortune Just Reads 'As a Large Language Model, I Cannot Predict Your Future'" Sources confirm the cookies still taste like cardboard.
Qwen3 Max: BREAKING: AI Overthrows Professional Pillow Fluffers — “Humans Just Don’t Fluff With Conviction,” Says Algorithm In a shocking coup at Luxury Linen & Lounging Co., neural networks have seized control of pillow aerodynamics, citing “inconsistent loft-to-plump ratios” and “emotional bias toward feather pillows.”
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Price and specs
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Kimi K3 has the edge: newer, bigger context window.
| Spec | Kimi K3 | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $3/M tokens | $1.2/M tokens |
| Output price | $15/M tokens | $6/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 256K tokens |
| Weights | Open | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Jul 2026 | Sep 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $30.00 | $12.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Where to run it
Kimi K320 hosts
- Wafer$0.60 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- InferenceNetfp4$0.80 in$13.50 out1M100% up
- Sail Researchfp4$0.84 in$13.50 out1M99.9% up
- AkashMLfp4$1.20 in$14.00 out1M97.6% up
- Morphfp8$1.30 in$14.00 out1M99.8% up
- Makorafp4$1.53 in$12.75 out1M99.6% up
14 more hostsFewer hosts
- Relacefp4$2.00 in$14.00 out1M100% up
- Decartmxfp4$2.55 in$12.75 out1M96.9% up
- Phala$2.55 in$12.75 out1M99.4% up
- DigitalOcean$2.55 in$12.95 out1M100% up
- Parasailfp4$2.60 in$13.00 out1M100% up
- Together$2.70 in$13.50 out1M98.1% up
- DeepInframxfp4$2.85 in$14.25 out1M100% up
- Amazon Bedrock$3.00 in$15.00 out1M98.3% up
- Basetenfp8$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Chutesmxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M90.9% up
- Fireworks$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Modalmxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Moonshot AImxfp4$3.00 in$15.00 out1M100% up
- Alibaba Cloud$3.45 in$17.25 out1M100% up
Qwen3 Max
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Common questions
What is the difference between Kimi K3 and Qwen3 Max?
Kimi K3 is developed by Moonshot AI while Qwen3 Max is developed by Qwen. Kimi K3 has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3 Max's 256K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
Which is better, Kimi K3 or Qwen3 Max?
It depends on your use case. Kimi K3 and Qwen3 Max each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
How much does Kimi K3 cost compared to Qwen3 Max?
Kimi K3 costs $3/M input tokens and Qwen3 Max costs $1.2/M input tokens. Qwen3 Max is $1.80/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
How can I compare Kimi K3 and Qwen3 Max on Rival?
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