DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
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DeepSeek vs Hunyuan
DeepSeek (DeepSeek) and Hunyuan (Tencent) both sit in Writing. Hunyuan shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (16 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | DeepSeek DeepSeek | Hunyuan Tencent |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | Hunyuan-role-latest |
| Entry cost | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on token consumption. No flat monthly fee. | Free trial up to 1 million tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward. |
| Pricing tiers | deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Off-Peak) $0.003 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Hit - Peak) $0.006 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Off-Peak) $0.15 · deepseek-flash (Input Cache Miss - Peak) $0.3 · deepseek-flash (Output - Off-Peak) $0.6 · deepseek-flash (Output - Peak) $1.2 | Free Trial (1M tokens) free |
| Model stack | DeepSeek-R1 · DeepSeek-V3.2 · deepseek-v4-flash · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · DeepSeek-V4-Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash | Hunyuan-a13b · Hunyuan-embedding · Hunyuan-role-latest · Hunyuan-t1-vision · Hunyuan-T2 · Hunyuan-translation · Hunyuan-translation-lite · Hunyuan-turbos-vision · Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video · Hunyuan3D · HunyuanVideo · Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct |
| Context window | 1M | 256K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 9 | 16 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output | Image generation, Video generation, 3D asset generation, WeChat integration, Text Generation, Roleplay, Translation, Multimodal Vision |
Hunyuan
Hunyuan spans text, image, video and 3D generation, with several components open-sourced.
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