DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Qwen3.5 9B
Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against Qwen3.5 9B by Qwen, in 5 community votes, qwen3.5 9b wins 80% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 164K vs 262K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Reasoning: Qwen3.5 9B wins 80% of votes
Our Verdict
Qwen3.5 9BWinner
DeepSeek R1 0528Runner-up
Pick Qwen3.5 9B. In 5 blind votes, Qwen3.5 9B wins 80% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen3.5 9B particularly excels in Reasoning.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1 0528
Input
$0.000
Output
$0.000
Qwen3.5 9B
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.15
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Qwen3.5 9B uses 11.5x more transitions
DeepSeek R1 0528
Qwen3.5 9B
64%Vocabulary47%
10wSentence Length15w
0.30Hedging0.41
6.8Bold6.9
4.9Lists4.8
0.00Emoji0.00
0.40Headings0.91
0.00Transitions0.12
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