DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · → text
Input$0.272 /M
Output$1.088 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare DeepSeek V3 from DeepSeek and Qwen3.8 Max 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.
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.
Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
DeepSeek V3
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.272
$1.69
Output /M
$1.088
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
0
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
1.2 s
12.5 s
Throughput
66.5 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
December 26, 2024
August 3, 2026
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
Activity Past 30 Days
Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.
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Tokens / day
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Requests / day
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Performance Past 3 Days
Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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Throughput (tok/s)
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TTFT (s)
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Uptime (%)
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LMArena Benchmarks
LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
Text
deepseek-v3qwen3.8-max
1280134014001460
Overall
13591482
Coding
13881388
Math
13111311
Hard prompts
13501350
Instruction following
13441344
Multi-turn
13741374
Creative writing
13491349
Longer query
13751375
Chinese
13691369
English
13711371
Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.
DeepSeek V3
$32.64 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo
Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.
FAQ
Which is cheaper: DeepSeek V3, Qwen3.8 Max?
DeepSeek V3: $1.088/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
DeepSeek V3: 1.2s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Which one generates tokens faster?
DeepSeek V3 at 66.5 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Can I call DeepSeek V3 and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?
Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.
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