Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 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 V4 Flash
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.
The Qwen3 series Plus model effectively integrates thinking and non-thinking modes, allowing for mode switching during conversations. Its reasoning abilities significantly surpass those of QwQ, and its general capabilities are markedly superior to Qwen2.5-Plus, reaching state-of-the-art (SOTA) levels among models of the same scale. This version is a snapshot model as of April 28, 2025.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M output tokens; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: $1.126/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 1380 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 0.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.4 tok/s and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 at 10.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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