Qwen 3.7 Max vs Kimi K2.6

Alibaba (Qwen) against Moonshot AI, costed on the same three workloads. Kimi K2.6 is cheaper on all three workloads.

Monthly bill, side by side

WorkloadQwen 3.7 MaxKimi K2.6Difference
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$8,044 $3,522 $4,521 (2.3×)
Document summariser
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$1,095 $444 $651 (2.5×)
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$6,120 $2,533 $3,587 (2.4×)

No prompt caching and no batch discount on either side, so the comparison is like for like. Both figures assume 30 days a month.

The rate cards

Qwen 3.7 MaxKimi K2.6
Input, per 1M tokens$2.5$0.95
Output, per 1M tokens$7.5$4
Cached input$0.5$0.16
Context window992K262K
Maximum output66K262K
Reasoning modelyesyes
Visionnoyes

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