Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Coder-480B offers 134.3K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-R1. Qwen3-Coder-480B is $1.24 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-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, released by Alibaba's Qwen team on July 22, 2025, is a Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 480 billion total parameters and 35 billion active parameters per inference, specifically designed for agentic coding tasks. It features a 256K token native context window (extendable to 1M tokens with extrapolation) and demonstrated competitive performance on agentic coding, browser automation, and tool-use benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder-480B targets automated software engineering, multi-step code agents, and open-source coding deployments under the Apache 2.0 license.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
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DeepSeek
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DeepSeek-R1
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DeepSeek-R1
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