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DeepSeek R1 vs Qwen3.7 Max

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Qwen3.7 Max details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek R1 is the cheapest — 59% less than the priciest here ($146.00/mo vs $354.00/mo).

 DeepSeek R1Qwen3.7 Max
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$1.48
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$4.42
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.0035
Context window163,840 tokens1M tokens
Max output32,768 tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score84/10088/100
TierFlagshipFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1Qwen3.7 Max
1,000$1.46$3.54
10,000$14.60$35.40
100,000$146.00$354.00
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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.

Qwen3.7 Max

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