Compare DeepSeek R1 from DeepSeek and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek R1
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewDeepSeek R1 is a new open-source model with performance on par with OpenAI's o1 and features fully open reasoning tokens. It is a 671B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that activates 37B parameters during inference.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M output tokens; DeepSeek R1: $2.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek R1: 1.0s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek R1 accepts 1,638,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 1,638,000 tokens on DeepSeek R1 and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
DeepSeek R1 at 68.4 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek R1 accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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