Is Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct or Kimi-K2.6 cheaper?

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($1.00 vs $4.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct or Kimi-K2.6?

Both models offer a similar context window.

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct vs Kimi-K2.6

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct is cheaper on output tokens. Choose Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct or Kimi-K2.6 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	Kimi-K2.6
Provider	Hugging Face	Hugging Face
Input / 1M tokens	$0.25	$0.95
Output / 1M tokens	$1.00	$4.00
Context window	262K	262K
Parameters	—	1T
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Released	Sep 2025	Apr 2026

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct details →Kimi-K2.6 details →

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