Qwen3 Max vs Kimi K2.5: API price and specs

Qwen3 Max is 20% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on input price.

Kimi K2.5 is 16% cheaper than Qwen3 Max on output price.

Qwen3 Max is 7% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Qwen3 Max	Kimi K2.5
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.36	$0.45 +25.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.87 +44.2%	$0.60
Lowest output, per 1M	$1.43 +19.2%	$1.20
Median output, per 1M	$3.46 +15.3%	$3.00
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.65	$0.69 +7%
Context	262K	262K
Max output	66K +75%	262K
Providers	12 +68.4%	38
Regions	US	EU, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	image, text	image, image/bmp, image/gif, image/heic, image/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, text, video, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	orcarouter	deepinfra

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, aihubmix, alibaba-coding-plan, alibaba-coding-plan-cn, deepinfra, edenai, kilo, ofox, orcarouter, qiniu-ai, requesty, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 Max or Kimi K2.5?

Qwen3 Max is 20% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on input price. Kimi K2.5 is 16% cheaper than Qwen3 Max on output price. Qwen3 Max is 7% cheaper than Kimi K2.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3 Max or Kimi K2.5?

Qwen3 Max: 262K tokens; Kimi K2.5: 262K tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3 Max and Kimi K2.5?

302ai, aihubmix, alibaba-coding-plan, alibaba-coding-plan-cn, deepinfra, edenai, kilo, ofox, orcarouter, qiniu-ai, requesty, zenmux