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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ·DeepSeek vs Alibaba

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 — DeepSeek
Quality
#3 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#255 of 356
47.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#146 of 504
$0.36
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.29 · Out $0.57
Cache hit price
#92 of 384
$0.024
per 1M tokens (−92%)
Context
#57 of 550
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — Alibaba
Quality
#37 of 65
66based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#106 of 356
87.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#147 of 504
$0.36
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.15 · Out $1.00
Cache hit price
#143 of 384
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−67%)
Context
#250 of 550
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 scores 93 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores 66 — a 28-point lead for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 ahead on 2 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.36 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and $0.36 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B, within 10% of each other.

Throughput is 47 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and 88 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B, with time to first token at 2.0s and 1.9s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 262k.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 28 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 7 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 8 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 66 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.36 $0.36
Output tok/s 47 88
Context window 1.05M 262k
Providers 23 12
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Known Good Index 93 66
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 84
Mock AIME 2024–2597 / 87

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 / Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads on 2 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Text Arena 1,451 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,458 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input $/1M $0.29 $0.15
Output $/1M $0.57 $1.00
Blended $/1M $0.36 $0.36
Cache read $/1M $0.024 $0.050
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Context window 1.05M 262k
Max output tokens 384k 236k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Output tokens/s 47 88
Time to first token 2.0s 1.9s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

28 hosts · 7 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 122 — —
Azure · first party $2.39 102 — —
Relace $1.26 86 — —
Baidu · first party $0.36 58 — —
Reka · first party $3.41 56 $0.33 107
CoreWeave $1.50 55 $0.50 109
Novita $2.00 55 — —
Alibaba · first party $1.77 53 — —
Cloudflare $1.50 51 — —
DigitalOcean $1.30 49 — —
NextBit $2.17 45 — —
SiliconFlow $1.91 44 $0.63 58
AtlasCloud $2.10 43 $0.42 140
DeepInfra $1.62 43 $0.31 15
GMICloud $1.20 42 — —
Together $2.17 39 — —
Venice $2.06 38 $0.33 58
Ionstream $1.41 35 — —
StreamLake $0.36 35 — —
DeepSeek · first party $0.99 31 — —
Parasail $1.21 31 $0.36 55
Wafer $1.50 28 — —
Fireworks $1.20 — — —
Io Net — — $0.47 120
Darkbloom — — $0.21 63
DekaLLM — — $0.33 37
AkashML — — $0.30 36
Phala — — $0.47 13

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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