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Hunyuan vs Kimi

Hunyuan (Tencent) and Kimi (Moonshot AI) both sit in Writing. Kimi is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go based on token usage. See pricing tables for Kimi K3, K2.7, and K2.6 models.. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (14 vs 11). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

AttributeHunyuan

Tencent

Kimi

Moonshot AI

SegmentWritingWriting
VersionHunyuanKimi K3
Entry costFree tier · from $0.07/1M tokPay-as-you-go based on token usage. See pricing tables for Kimi K3, K2.7, and K2.6 models.
Pricing tiersFree Trial (1M tokens) free · Hunyuan-a13b Pay-as-you-go $0.07 · Hunyuan-embedding Pay-as-you-go $0.1Pay-as-you-go API usage free
Model stackHunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 InstructKimi K2.6 · Kimi K2.7 Code · Kimi K3 · kimi-k2.5 · kimi-k2.7-code-highspeed
Context window256K tokens1M
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d1411
OriginChinaChina
CapabilitiesImage generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal VisionNative multimodal (visual + text), 1M-token context, Agentic tool use, Thinking / non-thinking modes, Dedicated coding models (k2.7-code, high-speed), Open weights, 1M token context, Multimodal input

Hunyuan

Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.

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Kimi

Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and the open-weight K2 agentic model.

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