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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers 128.5K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek VL2. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is $4806.20 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
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.
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DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25
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