DeepSeek V3.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Compare DeepSeek V3.1 by DeepSeek against Qwen: Qwen3 Max by Qwen, in 59 community votes, deepseek v3.1 and qwen: qwen3 max are closely matched, context windows of 164K vs 256K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 71% of votes
Web Design: Qwen: Qwen3 Max wins 57% of votes
Image Generation: DeepSeek V3.1 wins 67% of votes
Conversation: DeepSeek V3.1 wins 100% of votes
Analysis: DeepSeek V3.1 wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
DeepSeek V3.1
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Too close to call. Pick based on your use case.
Pick DeepSeek V3.1 for Conversation, Image Generation, Analysis. Pick Qwen: Qwen3 Max for Reasoning, Web Design. DeepSeek V3.1 is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek V3.1
Input
$0.20
6.0× cheaper
Output
$0.80
7.5× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
DeepSeek V3.1 is cheaper on both — 6.0× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
41%
Qwen: Qwen3 Max uses 19.2x more emoji
DeepSeek V3.1
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
53%Vocabulary60%
14wSentence Length28w
0.42Hedging0.48
4.0Bold5.7
3.6Lists4.1
0.02Emoji0.45
0.40Headings0.78
0.22Transitions0.18
Based on 23 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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