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DeepSeek V4 vs Qwen 3 Max

DeepSeek vs Qwen. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

DeepSeek V4 leads on LMSYS ELO (1334 vs 1295). DeepSeek V4 is ~16.0× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

DeepSeek

The shock-the-market moment of 2026. Frontier coding quality at 1/50th the price of Opus.

Unbeatable $/qualityOpen weightsGreat at code

Qwen

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

Pricing

Input / 1M$0.14$1.60

Output / 1M$0.28$6.40

Context128K128K

Max output16K16K

LicenseOpen weightsOpen weights

Released2026-02-202025-11-20

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1334.01295.0

MMLU Pro85.484.0

HumanEval91.587.2

SWE-Bench54.1—

MATH88.785.1

MMMU—71.8

IFEval85.885.5

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.0022$0.027

Review a 500-line pull request$0.0017$0.026

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0006$0.0099

Extract structured data from a resume$0.0010$0.014

Debug a stack trace with context$0.0014$0.022

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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