Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | Alibaba Cloud | DeepSeek |
| Family / tier | Qwen3 · Large | DeepSeek V4 · Flash |
| Status | GA | retired |
| Released | 2025-04-29 | 2026-04-24 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-10 | 2026-02 |
| Context window | 131K | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 33K | 384K |
| Input modalities | text | text |
| Reasoning mode | optional | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Input | $0.2 | $0.14 |
| Output | $0.6 | $0.28 |
| Cached input | — | $0.0028 |
| Batch input | — | — |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 68 | — |
| Time to first token (s) | 0.78 | — |
| Latency tier | medium | fast |
| Trains on inputs | No | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Clouds | GCP | — |
| Compliance | — | — |
| Unified score | 8.5 | 8.7 |
| Decision Maker | 8 | 8.5 |
| Domain Strategist | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 9.5 | 9.7 |
| Domain Practitioner | 9 | 8.5 |
| Power User | 7.5 | 8 |
| Skeptic | 7 | 7.5 |
| Value score | 9.5 | 9.9 |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.8 | 86.2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 70 | 88.1 |
| AIME 2025 | 81.5 | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 79 |
| LiveCodeBench | 70.7 | 91.6 |
| MRCR Long Context | — | 78.7 |
| SimpleQA | — | 34.1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 34.8 |
| LMArena Elo | 1423 | 1438 |
| LMArena Coding Elo | 1472 | 1483 |
Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.