Output tokens cost $0.31 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $1.01 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Input tokens cost $0.15 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $0.34 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.00 per million on deepseek-v4-flash and $0.03 per million on qwen3.8-max-preview. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash and 983,616 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.2s on deepseek-v4-flash and 2.4s on qwen3.8-max-preview. Measured output throughput is 101.3 tokens/s on deepseek-v4-flash and 48.1 tokens/s on qwen3.8-max-preview.
deepseek-v4-flash
qwen3.8-max-previewDeepSeek-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.
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. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
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Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.
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deepseek-v4-flash: $0.31/M output tokens; qwen3.8-max-preview: $1.01/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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.
deepseek-v4-flash 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 and 131,072 tokens on qwen3.8-max-preview.
deepseek-v4-flash at 101.3 tokens/s and qwen3.8-max-preview at 48.1 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.
deepseek-v4-flash 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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