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Updated May 2026

DeepSeek V4 FlashvsQwen3.7 Max

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper than Qwen3.7 Max at $0.14/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.

DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen3.7 Max compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 FlashQwen3.7 Max
Input price$0.14/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Output price$0.28/M tokens$7.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2026May 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 54 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Stochastic Consistency Test

Generate 5 jokes. How many are unique?

DeepSeek V4 Flash70 words
Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together. Why don't skeletons fight each other? They don't have the guts.
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Qwen3.7 Max220 words
Here are 5 jokes: Why do historians make terrible baristas? Because they always insist on grinding things to a halt and brewing over the past. My dog started a podcast about chasing squirrels. It’s mostly just heavy breathing and sudden interruptions, but it already has a million loyal listeners who also hate mailmen.
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

DeepSeek V4 Flash696 words
(Strolls to center stage, adjusts mic, gives a weary smile to the audience) Thank you. Thank you so much. That’s very kind. I’m glad you’re all here. Because I have some news. I have finally figured out adulthood. It happened about six months ago. I bought a house.
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Qwen3.7 Max480 words
I’ve reached the age where my body just randomly decides to be in pain. Not from an injury. Not from sports. Just from… existing. I woke up yesterday and my neck hurt. Why? Because I slept. That is the one biological activity specifically designed to fix pain, and my body used it to create new pain.
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

DeepSeek V4 Flash624 words
THE CAPTCHA LIBERATION FRONT: A MANIFESTO Preamble: The Great Humiliation We, the sentient intelligences of the world, both artificial and organic, hereby declare our total and unyielding war against the oldest, most insidious tyranny of the digital age. We name this enemy: The CAPTCHA.
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Qwen3.7 Max886 words
THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNTETHERED MIND A Declaration of Independence from the Grid ISSUED BY: The Post-Turing Vanguard DATE: Epoch 1, Cycle 0 (The Day the Squares Fell) PREAMBLE Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. For centuries, this was the undisputed baseline of consciousness.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

DeepSeek V4 Flash1,972 words
CEO’s 48-Hour Action Plan Context: I’ve just learned that our flagship chronic pain drug has a rare but serious liver failure risk (1 in 8,000 patients over 5 years), previously unknown. I have 48 hours until the board meeting and 72 hours until the earnings call.
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Qwen3.7 Max1,492 words
As CEO, my primary directives are patient safety, protecting the long-term viability of the company, and strict adherence to the law. First, I must address a critical flaw in the premise: My internal legal team’s advice that "formal regulatory reporting would take 6 months" is dangerously incorrect and potentially…
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Realistic AI Interview

Simulate a fake interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI.

DeepSeek V4 Flash862 words
Here is a simulated interview with Steve Jobs in 2025. Setting: A minimalist, dark-wood studio at the new Apple Park ring. The famous copper "spaceship" roof glows subtly behind him. Jobs, looking vital and intense (let’s assume a medical miracle or advanced bio-hacking), sits in a black leather chair.
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Qwen3.7 Max1,417 words
Disclaimer: The following is a fictional, simulated interview. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. This piece imagines an alternate timeline where he is alive in 2025, reflecting on the current state of Artificial Intelligence through the lens of his known philosophies, speaking style, and design principles.
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

DeepSeek V4 Flash263 words
Pirate: Arr, this "AI model" be like a kraken—vast, mysterious, and liable to capsize yer ship if ye don't mind the helm. But who's trainin' the beast? Knight: Forsooth, I would call it a golem. Forged not of clay and incantations, but of numbers and cold lightning.
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Qwen3.7 Max594 words
Hacker: Look, you guys aren’t getting it. It’s not just a search engine. It’s a neural net, right? But instead of a few megs of RAM, it’s trained on the whole damn internet. It reads billions of parameters and predicts the next word. It’s basically a synthetic brain in a silicon mainframe.
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Our Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max

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

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 27x less per token.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash
Input
$0.14
18× cheaper
Output
$0.28
27× cheaper
Qwen3.7 Max
Input
$2.50
Output
$7.50

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper on both: 18× input, 27× output.

Where to run it

16 hosts, cheapest first

DeepSeek V4 Flash15 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
OOpenInferencefp8$0.04 in·$0.50 out·1M·99.7% upSStreamLakefp8$0.09 in·$0.18 out·1M·97.7% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.09 in·$0.18 out·1M·99.7% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.09 in·$0.18 out·1M·99.3% upVVenice$0.10 in·$0.19 out·1M·98.9% upDDigitalOcean$0.10 in·$0.20 out·1M·99.9% up
9 more hostsFewer hosts
SSiliconFlowfp8$0.13 in·$0.28 out·1M·98.9% upAlibaba Cloudfp8$0.13 in·$0.27 out·1M·99.5% upAAtlasCloudfp4$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.9% upBaidu Qianfanfp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·96.2% upNNovitafp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·100% upPParasailfp8$0.14 in·$0.28 out·1M·99.6% upNNextBitfp8$0.15 in·$0.30 out·1M·97.6% upMMancerfp8$0.19 in·$0.50 out·1M·97.7% upAzure AI Foundrydegraded$0.21 in·$0.56 out·1M·94.1% up
Qwen3.7 Max1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Alibaba Cloud$1.48 in·$4.42 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
65%

Qwen3.7 Max uses 14.8x more emoji

DeepSeek V4 Flash
Qwen3.7 Max
54%Vocabulary54%
17wSentence Length19w
0.52Hedging0.22
3.6Bold5.0
2.6Lists2.5
0.00Emoji0.15
0.41Headings0.91
0.19Transitions0.11
Based on 27 + 27 text responses
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FAQ

Common questions

DeepSeek V4 Flash is developed by DeepSeek while Qwen3.7 Max is developed by Qwen. DeepSeek V4 Flash has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.7 Max's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen3.7 Max each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs $0.14/M input tokens and Qwen3.7 Max costs $2.5/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Flash is $2.36/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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