Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers 370.7K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V2.5. DeepSeek-V2.5 is $2.88 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek-V2.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V2.5 was developed as an enhanced iteration of the DeepSeek-V2 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in model quality and efficiency. Built to advance the DeepSeek foundation model series, it provides refined capabilities for general-purpose language understanding and generation tasks.
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.
1 year newer

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek
2024-05-08

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V2.5

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

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hyperbolic

DeepSeek-V2.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

DeepSeek-V2.5

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita