Is Qwen3.5 397B-A17B or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 cheaper?

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper on output tokens ($1.00 vs $2.34 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3.5 397B-A17B or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B vs deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3.5 397B-A17B offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3.5 397B-A17B or deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3.5 397B-A17B	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
Provider	SiliconFlow	SiliconFlow
Input / 1M tokens	$0.39	$0.25
Output / 1M tokens	$2.34	$1.00
Context window	262K	164K
Parameters	397B	671B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Feb 2026	Dec 2024

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B details →deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 details →

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