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Updated Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpvsQwen3.6 Max Preview

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper than Qwen3.6 Max Preview at $0.22/M vs $1.04/M input tokens.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Qwen3.6 Max Preview compared across 2 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpQwen3.6 Max Preview
Input price$0.22/M tokens$1.04/M tokens
Output price$0.66/M tokens$6.24/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Apr 2026
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp144 words
Sticky Soy-Glazed Midnight Noodles A sweet-savory, buttery noodle dish that comes together in about 20 minutes with pantry staples. Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or noodles 3 tbsp butter 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp honey ½ tsp chili flakes 1 tbsp sesame seeds Instructions: Cook the noodles…
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview257 words
🌅 Golden Hour Chickpea Couscous ⏱️ Prep: 5 min Cook: 10 min Total: 15 min 📦 Ingredients (exactly 7 pantry staples): 1 cup quick-cooking couscous 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained & rinsed 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp smoked paprika 2 tbsp honey 1 tbsp soy sauce (Water for cooking the couscous is assumed…
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp869 words
Here is how a large language model learns and generates text, tailored to each of your three audiences. To an Experienced Software Engineer You build distributed systems, so think of an LLM as a massively parallel, lossy compression engine for human text.
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Qwen3.6 Max Preview1,204 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a rules engine or a knowledge base, but as a massively parameterized, stateless function trained via distributed optimization. The learning objective is deceptively simple: minimize cross-entropy loss for next-token prediction across trillions of tokens.
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Our Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs 9.5x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Input
$0.22
4.7× cheaper
Output
$0.66
9.5× cheaper
Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input
$1.04
Output
$6.24

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper on both: 4.7× input, 9.5× output.

Where to run it

6 hosts, cheapest first

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
FFireworks$0.22 in·$0.66 out·1M·99.9% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.8% upNNovita$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·97.1% upDDeepInfrafp8degraded$0.22 in·$0.65 out·1M·78.6% up
Qwen3.6 Max Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$1.03 in·$6.16 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is developed by DeepSeek while Qwen3.6 Max Preview is developed by Qwen. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 2 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Qwen3.6 Max Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 2 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.22/M input tokens and Qwen3.6 Max Preview costs $1.04/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is $0.82/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Qwen3.6 Max Preview across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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