Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-VL Flash supports multimodal inputs. 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-VL Flash is a lightweight multimodal variant from Alibaba's Qwen3-VL family, designed for efficient visual reasoning and image understanding at lower inference cost. It inherits the joint visual-textual architecture of the Qwen3-VL series and targets latency-sensitive applications requiring multimodal input processing at scale.
1 year newer

DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Qwen3-VL Flash
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-01-22
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
Qwen3-VL Flash
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen3-VL Flash
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen3-VL Flash