Output tokens cost $0.56 per million on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and $1.01 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Input tokens cost $0.28 per million on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and $0.34 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.07 per million on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and $0.03 per million on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Context lengths are 1,000,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and 983,616 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 3.7s on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and 2.4s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. Measured output throughput is 129.8 tok/s on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and 48.1 tok/s on Qwen3.8 Max Preview. On the LMArena coding leaderboard DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast scores 1483 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 1520.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast is a high-speed deployment of DeepSeek’s agentic model provided by Wafer, designed for coding, tool use, and high-volume agent workloads. It preserves the capabilities of V4 Flash 0731 while delivering much faster inference. Compared with V4 Pro, it prioritizes latency and execution efficiency.
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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Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast: $0.56/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast: 1483 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 2.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Fast at 129.8 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 V4 Flash 0731 Fast accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; 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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