Head-to-head comparison
Dots3-Note Preview (Dots Studio) and KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 (Kuaishou) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 20 August 2026
As of 20 August 2026, Dots3-Note Preview holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#146 vs #149); Dots3-Note Preview is cheaper per output token (Free/1M vs $0.60/1M); and Dots3-Note Preview offers the longer context window (512K vs 256K tokens).
Evidence: global corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · global corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Neither model has a published result on a public benchmark board ModelCap tracks yet.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Dots3-Note Preview ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 20 August 2026: #146 against #149. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Dots3-Note Preview is cheaper on output tokens: Free/1M against $0.60/1M. Input tokens are Free/1M for Dots3-Note Preview and $0.15/1M for KAT-Coder-Air V2.5. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Dots3-Note Preview has the larger context window: 512K tokens against 256K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Dots3-Note Preview: API only. KAT-Coder-Air V2.5: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Dots3-Note Preview and 1 for KAT-Coder-Air V2.5, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 20 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.