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Qwen 3 Max vs DeepSeek R2

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

Verdict

DeepSeek R2 is ~2.9× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Qwen

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

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s reasoning variant. Competes with o4 on math at a fraction of the cost.

Frontier math at open-weights pricingLong CoT traces

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$0.55

Output / 1M$6.40$2.19

Context128K128K

Max output16K64K

LicenseOpen weightsOpen weights

Released2025-11-202026-01-15

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.0—

MMLU Pro84.087.8

HumanEval87.290.1

MATH85.194.1

GPQA—71.2

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.5—

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.0093

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.0088

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.0034

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.0049

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.0077

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

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