Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Coder-480B 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-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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Qwen3-Coder-480B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-07-22

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-08-21
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
Qwen3-Coder-480B
DeepSeek-V3.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
DeepSeek-V3.1
Qwen3-Coder-480B
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