Models

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Qwen Plus 2025 04-28

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.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is DeepSeek's efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts text model, designed for fast inference and workflows requiring tool use, function calling, and structured outputs. It features 284B total parameters with 13B activated parameters and supports a 1M-token context window with cost-effective pricing.

Input$0.464 /M
Output$0.928 /M
Cache read$0.0039 /M
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Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
Qwen · → text

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.

Input$0.13 /M
Output$2.6 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
Input /M
$0.464
$0.13
Output /M
$0.928
$2.6
Cache read /M
$0.0039
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
0
0
Time to First Token
0.7 s
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Throughput
59.0 tok/s
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Modalities
text
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
deepseek-v4-flashqwen-plus-2025-04-28
1280134014001460
Overall
13271431
Coding
13291452
Math
13261428
Instruction following
13031420
Longer query
13251435
Chinese
13471467
English
13391439

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$41.76 /mo
Qwen Plus 2025 04-28
$46.80 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen Plus 2025 04-28?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.928/M output tokens; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: $2.6/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1452; Qwen Plus 2025 04-28: 1329 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Can I call DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen Plus 2025 04-28 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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