Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Qwen3 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 V4 Flash
Qwen3 Max Preview(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.
Qwen3-Max-Preview is the latest preview model in the Qwen3 series. This version is functionally equivalent to Qwen3-Max-Thinking — simply set extra_body={"enable_thinking": True} to enable the thinking mode. Compared to the Qwen2.5 series, it delivers significant improvements in overall general capabilities, including English–Chinese text understanding, complex instruction following, open-ended reasoning, multilingual processing, and tool-use proficiency. The model also exhibits fewer hallucinations and stronger overall reliability.
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 Max Preview: $3.384/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; Qwen3 Max Preview: 1482 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Qwen3 Max Preview: 0.5s 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 66.5 tok/s and Qwen3 Max Preview at 9.2 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 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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