The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·DeepSeek vs Alibaba

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek
Quality
#6 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#184 of 317
43.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#150 of 370
$0.54
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $0.87
Cache hit price
#13 of 238
$0.004
per 1M tokens (−99%)
Context
#25 of 375
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#188 of 317
43.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#252 of 370
$1.88
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $3.75
Cache hit price
#191 of 238
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#103 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93, which puts them level. They share 3 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ahead on 2 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 1.

Blended pricing is $0.54 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and $1.88 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is about 3.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 44 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and 43 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.9s and 1.2s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 1.00M.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 19 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.54 $1.88
Output tok/s 44 43
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Providers 19 1
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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 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 93 93
Mathematics Index 97 95
Agentic Index 89 88
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2597 / 95
SWE-bench Verified78 / 77

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro leads on 2 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 1.

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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 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,450
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,457
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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 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $0.43 $1.25
Output $/1M $0.87 $3.75
Blended $/1M $0.54 $1.88
Cache read $/1M $0.004 $0.250
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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 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 1.05M 1.00M
Max output tokens 384k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 44 43
Time to first token 1.9s 1.2s
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Providers

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

19 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 110
Parasail $2.17 65
Cloudflare $2.17 64
Novita $1.46 62
Venice $2.06 55
Fireworks $2.17 53
DeepInfra $1.62 51
Alibaba · first party $2.01 50 $1.88 50
GMICloud $0.85 48
Together $2.17 45
SiliconFlow $1.91 41
CoreWeave $2.17 40
DeepSeek · first party $0.54 40
Baidu · first party $0.78 38
StreamLake $0.84 38
Wafer $1.50 28
AtlasCloud $2.10 25
DigitalOcean $1.74 8
Ionstream $1.41 5

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →