Comparison
Kimi vs Qwen Chat
Kimi: Moonshot AI's chatbot with leading open models for coding. Qwen Chat: Alibaba's free chatbot, with open-weight models.
| Kimi | Qwen Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| Price | Freemium Free chat at kimi.com. Paid plans from $19/month. Pay-as-you-go API, one of the cheapest on the market. | Free Free web chat with no caps. Open models under Apache 2.0; Alibaba Cloud API is pay-as-you-go. |
| Free plan | ||
| API available | ||
| Open source | ||
| In Spanish | ||
| No watermark | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android | Web · iOS · Android |
Kimi
- Open-weight models that perform like the paid flagships
- Genuinely usable free web chat
- API far cheaper than OpenAI's or Anthropic's
- Interface and documentation are geared to Chinese and English
- Chinese company: same privacy questions as DeepSeek in corporate settings
Qwen Chat
- Completely free web chat with no message limits
- Open-weight models under Apache 2.0, free for commercial use
- Very strong at reasoning, maths and code
- The newest models (3.7 series) are API-only, with no open weights
- Chinese company: its data policy raises concerns in corporate settings