Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B offers 134.3K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. Qwen3-235B-A22B is $1.74 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen3-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on April 28, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window, hybrid thinking capabilities (both reasoning and direct generation modes), and was trained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages. Qwen3-235B targets complex reasoning, multilingual tasks, and open-source deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
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