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| Specifications | ||
ParametersThe learned values that shape how a model responds. B means billion and T means trillion. For mixture-of-experts models, the total count is larger than the number active for each token. Parameter count alone does not measure quality. | 236B | >1T |
Context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider. | 128k | 256k |
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins · base tier | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $1.20 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $6.00 |
| — | $540Qwen list price | |
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Release date | May 6 2024 | Sep 24 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Closed |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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DeepSeek V2 and Qwen3-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Qwen3-Max has a verified first-party API price: $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek V2. DeepSeek V2 shipped 506 days before Qwen3-Max, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V2 has 236B parameters, while Qwen3-Max has >1T. Context windows are 128k (DeepSeek V2) vs 256k (Qwen3-Max). DeepSeek V2 is open weight, while Qwen3-Max is closed.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek V2 and Qwen3-Max don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.