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 Qwen Chat
DeepSeek (DeepSeek) and Qwen Chat (Alibaba) both sit in Writing. Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | DeepSeek DeepSeek | Qwen Chat Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | Qwen3-2507 |
| Entry cost | Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified. | Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed. |
| Pricing tiers | Pay-as-you-go API free | Chat with Qwen free |
| Model stack | deepseek-flash · 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 · DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ |
| Context window | 1000000 | 256K |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 11 | 11 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding |
Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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