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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·DeepSeek vs Alibaba

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — DeepSeek
Quality
#40 of 65
64based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#286 of 341
24.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#163 of 450
$0.50
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.29 · Out $1.14
Cache hit price
#188 of 344
$0.11
per 1M tokens (−62%)
Context
#347 of 487
164k
tokens (~300 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#6 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#174 of 341
48.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#322 of 450
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#293 of 344
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#154 of 487
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 scores 64 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 29-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.50 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 and $2.21 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 is about 4.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 24 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 and 48 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.5s and 1.1s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 accepts 164k tokens of context against 1.00M.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 is open weights; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 6 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 64 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.50 $2.21
Output tok/s 24 48
Context window 164k 1.00M
Providers 5 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 64 93
Mathematics Index 57 —
Reasoning Index 65 —
Openness Index 100 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond68 / 91
Mock AIME 2024–2538 / 96

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 leads on 0 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,375 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,396 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $0.29 $1.48
Output $/1M $1.14 $4.42
Blended $/1M $0.50 $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.110 $0.295
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 164k 1.00M
Max output tokens 147k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 24 48
Time to first token 1.5s 1.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

6 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Crusoe $0.75 33 — —
Novita $0.48 29 — —
SiliconFlow $0.44 22 — —
GMICloud $0.50 17 — —
DeepInfra $0.41 14 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $2.21 53

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →