DeepSeek V3.2 vs Qwen3 Max
List-price comparison · DeepSeek V3.2 details · Qwen3 Max details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3.2 costs 84% less — $41.18/mo vs $249.60/mo.
| DeepSeek V3.2 | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.229 | $0.780 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.343 | $3.90 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0004 | $0.0025 |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 64k tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | DeepSeek | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
DeepSeek V3.2
Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.
Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.
Qwen3 Max
Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.
Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.