Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 leads with 7.8% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Zero was introduced as an experimental variant trained with minimal human supervision, designed to develop reasoning patterns through self-guided reinforcement learning. Built to explore how models can discover analytical strategies independently, it represents research into autonomous reasoning capability development.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
6 months newer

DeepSeek R1 Zero
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507