Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by Moonshot AI against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 66K, tested across 35 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.30
Output
$0.60
2.5× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
2.0× cheaper
Output
$1.50
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct wins input (2.0× cheaper)·Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct wins output (2.5× cheaper)
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
65%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct uses 58.9x more emoji
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
63%Vocabulary52%
15wSentence Length16w
0.19Hedging0.20
5.2Bold5.8
3.2Lists3.7
0.00Emoji0.59
0.38Headings0.96
0.05Transitions0.05
Based on 14 + 20 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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