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DeepSeek vs Qwen
Compare DeepSeek vs Qwen: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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chat.deepseek.com ↗ Qwen
chat.qwen.ai ↗ Pricing
Free tier
Fully free in the consumer app
Generous free tier in consumer app
Standard plan
API only — API only
Plus — API only
Top plan
API only — API only
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$0.27 Best
$0.40
API output / 1M tokens
$1.10 Best
$1.20
Capability
Context window
128K
256K Best
Max output tokens
8K
8K Best
Knowledge cutoff
2026-01
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
70%
72% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
72%
85% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
73%
74% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1356
1370 Best
Features
Image input
Partial
✓
Voice mode
—
✓
Web search
✓
✓
File upload
Partial
✓
Image generation
—
✓
Code execution
Partial
✓
Agent / tool use
—
✓
Persistent memory
—
✓
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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