Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 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
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct(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 code generation model based on Qwen3 has powerful Coding Agent capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance compared to open-source models.The model adopts tiered pricing.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: $0.8/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: 1457 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct accepts 262,144 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash and 262,000 tokens on Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct.
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at 115.0 tok/s and DeepSeek V4 Flash at 69.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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