Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B was created as a larger distilled variant, designed to transfer more of DeepSeek-R1's reasoning capabilities into a Qwen-based foundation. Built to serve applications requiring enhanced analytical depth, it represents a powerful option in the distilled reasoning model family.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepInfra

Qwen3 235B A22B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Qwen3 235B A22B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
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