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DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ·DeepSeek vs Alibaba

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B profile Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B — DeepSeek
Quality
#41 of 65
63based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#306 of 338
20.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#211 of 442
$0.80
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.80 · Out $0.80
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#467 of 476
8k
tokens (~13 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — Alibaba
Quality
#19 of 65
79based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#236 of 338
35.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#194 of 442
$0.73
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.33 · Out $1.95
Cache hit price
#108 of 324
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−85%)
Context
#112 of 476
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B scores 63 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus scores 79 — a 16-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.80 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and $0.73 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus, within 10% of each other.

Throughput is 21 tokens per second for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and 35 for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus, with time to first token at 1.0s and 1.0s. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8k tokens of context against 1.00M.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Known Good Index 63 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 79 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.80 $0.73
Output tok/s 21 35
Context window 8k 1.00M
Providers 1 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Known Good Index 63 79
Mathematics Index 71 —
Reasoning Index 59 —
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 88
Mock AIME 2024–2551 / 93

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B / Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B leads on 0 of 2, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Text Arena — 1,437
Text Arena (style controlled) — 1,444
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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: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Input $/1M $0.80 $0.33
Output $/1M $0.80 $1.95
Blended $/1M $0.80 $0.73
Cache read $/1M — $0.050
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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: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Context window 8k 1.00M
Max output tokens 7k 66k
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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: R1 Distill Llama 70BQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Output tokens/s 21 35
Time to first token 1.0s 1.0s
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Providers

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

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B blendedDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus tok/s
Novita $0.80 17 — —
Alibaba · first party — — $0.73 33

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 →