KAT-Coder-Pro V2 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

KAT-Coder-Pro V2 at $0.345 in and $1.38 out and Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at $0.207 in and $2.42 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

Kwaipilot

0.28¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $1.38 out / 1M

256K context · released 4 months ago

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Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen

0.3¢

for a client proposal

$0.207 in · $2.42 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.58¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at $0.207 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 at $1.38 per million tokens.
Largest context: KAT-Coder-Pro V2 at 256K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

0.14¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.16¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

0.28¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.3¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

$0.06

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

1.3¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

0.97¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

$0.09

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

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Pricing

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Input / 1M tokens

$0.345

$0.207

Output / 1M tokens

$1.38

$2.42

Cached input / 1M

$0.069

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Specs

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Provider

Kwaipilot

Qwen

Released

4 months ago

October 2025

Context window

256K

131K

Max output

80K

33K

Input

Text

Images and Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

KAT-Coder-Pro V2

Kwaipilot

0.14¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking

Qwen

0.16¢

for this task

26% input · 74% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.3¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,665 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, KAT-Coder-Pro V2 has the largest context window here — 256K tokens.

On price, KAT-Coder-Pro V2 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.28¢.

For images or files, Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking can read them directly; KAT-Coder-Pro V2 is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

KAT-Coder-Pro V2 pricing →Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, KAT-Coder-Pro V2 or Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): KAT-Coder-Pro V2 at 0.28¢; Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking at 0.3¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

KAT-Coder-Pro V2 — 256K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run KAT-Coder-Pro V2 and Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.58¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.58¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.