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.
deepseek-v4-flash vs qwen3.8-max
Output tokens cost $0.31 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $5.07 per million on qwen3.8-max. Input tokens cost $0.15 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $1.69 per million on qwen3.8-max. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.00 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $0.17 per million on qwen3.8-max. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash and 991,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.2s on deepseek-v4-flash and 3.5s on qwen3.8-max. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tokens/s on deepseek-v4-flash and 37.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max.
Qwen 3.8 Max(qwen3.8-max) is Alibaba Cloud’s flagship native vision-language model, built on a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and supporting context windows of up to 1 million tokens. It is well suited for complex multimodal understanding, advanced reasoning, software development, agentic workflows, and long-context processing. At a similar price to Qwen3.7-Max, Qwen3.8-Max delivers significant improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities, with overall performance comparable to today’s leading models.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: deepseek-v4-flash, qwen3.8-max?
deepseek-v4-flash: $0.31/M output tokens; qwen3.8-max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
deepseek-v4-flash: 1.2s first-token latency measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
deepseek-v4-flash accepts 1,000,000 and qwen3.8-max accepts 991,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash and 128,000 tokens on qwen3.8-max.
Which one generates tokens faster?
deepseek-v4-flash at 101.3 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max at 37.1 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
deepseek-v4-flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; qwen3.8-max accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
Can I call deepseek-v4-flash 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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