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DeepSeek R1 vs Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 is the cheapest — 26% less than the priciest here ($108.00/mo vs $146.00/mo).

 DeepSeek R1Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$0.300
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$1.80
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.0011
Context window163,840 tokens1M tokens
Max output32,768 tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score84/10088/100
TierFlagshipFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20
1,000$1.46$1.08
10,000$14.60$10.80
100,000$146.00$108.00
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DeepSeek R1

Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.

Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.

Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20

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