DeepSeek R1 vs Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) by Qwen, in 1 community votes, deepseek r1 and qwen plus 0728 (thinking) are closely matched, context windows of 128K vs 1.0M, tested across 32 shared challenges. Updated March 2026.

Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)?

DeepSeek R1 and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) are closely matched based on 1 community votes. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking). Context windows: 128K vs 1000K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)

DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is from qwen. DeepSeek R1 has a 128K token context window compared to Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)'s 1000K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking). In community voting, In 1 community votes, DeepSeek R1 and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) are closely matched.

In 1 community votes, DeepSeek R1 and Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) are closely matched. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 1+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Our Verdict
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Winner
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek R1Runner-up

Votes are tied. Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking) is newer and likely incorporates more recent improvements.

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