Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B offers 134.3K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.1. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1, released by DeepSeek in August 2025, is a hybrid large language model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active) that unifies the capabilities of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 in a single model. It features a 128K token context window and supports both direct generation and extended reasoning modes selectable via the chat template. DeepSeek-V3.1 targets general-purpose tasks, coding, and complex 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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Qwen3-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-04-28

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-08-21
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.1
Qwen3-235B-A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.1
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Qwen3-235B-A22B
DeepSeek-V3.1
Qwen3-235B-A22B
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Qwen3-235B-A22B
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