Qwen Chat
Consumer and enterprise assistant fronting the Qwen series, the most-downloaded open model family on Hugging Face.
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Qwen Chat vs DeepSeek
Qwen Chat (Alibaba) and DeepSeek (DeepSeek) both sit in Writing. Qwen Chat shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Qwen Chat Alibaba | DeepSeek DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | Qwen3-2507 | V4.1 |
| Entry cost | Free to chat on official website | Pay-as-you-go API pricing. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash starts at $0.003/1M input tokens (cache hit, off-peak). |
| Pricing tiers | Free free | 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 |
| Model stack | Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Qwen3 (Qwen3-2504) · Qwen3-2504 · Qwen3-2507 · Qwen3-Instruct-2507 · Qwen3-Max · Qwen3-Thinking-2507 · Qwen3-VL · QwQ | 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 |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 10 | 9 |
| Origin | China | China |
| Capabilities | Web search, Image and video generation, Deep research, Translation, Open-weight siblings, natural language understanding, text generation, vision understanding | Reasoning mode, Open weights (MIT), OpenAI-compatible API, Context caching, Function calling, Thinking Mode, Context Caching, JSON Output |
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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