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 PreviewDeepSeek 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.
The latest qwen3-max-preview model is the preview version of the Qwen3 series Max model. Compared to the Qwen 2.5 series, it features significant improvements in overall general capabilities, including enhanced bilingual (Chinese and English) text comprehension, complex instruction following, subjective open-task performance, multilingual abilities, and tool usage. Additionally, the model exhibits reduced knowledge hallucination.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.928/M output tokens; Qwen3 Max Preview: $3.288/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3 Max Preview: 1457; DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1452 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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