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ChatGPT vs DeepSeek vs Qwen
Compare ChatGPT vs DeepSeek vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Limited GPT-5 mini, ~10 GPT-5 messages/day
Fully free in the consumer app
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
Plus — $20/mo
API only — API only
Plus — API only
Top plan
Pro — $200/mo
API only — API only
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$5.00
$0.27 Best
$0.40
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$1.10 Best
$1.20
Capability
Context window
256K
128K
256K Best
Max output tokens
16K Best
8K
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-01
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
72%
70%
72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
84%
72%
85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
79% Best
73%
74%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1410 Best
1356
1370
Features
Image input
✓
Partial
✓
Voice mode
✓
—
✓
Web search
✓
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
✓
Image generation
✓
—
✓
Code execution
✓
Partial
✓
Agent / tool use
✓
—
✓
Persistent memory
✓
—
✓
ChatGPT
Best all-rounder. Strongest agent tooling (custom GPTs, code interpreter, browse).
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
Qwen
Frontier-tier benchmarks at the lowest API cost in the high-quality tier. Open weights for Qwen 3-235B (Apache 2.0). Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations.
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