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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
Vendordeepseekqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score66.355.6
Input Price$0.15/M$0.42/M
Output Price$0.60/M$3.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output384,000131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index65.155.6

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashQwen: Qwen3.8 27B
SQL Generation 141 140
Code Review 144 142
Code Completion 133 132
Code Refactoring 146 144
Bug Fixing 148 146
Unit Test Generation 131 130
Code Documentation 137 136
Regex Writing 126 124
CI/CD Pipelines 127 126
Frontend Component Design 129 128
Data Analysis 133 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 137 135
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 133
Long-Document Summarization 148 146
Short-Form Summarization 127 126
Blog Post Writing 129 128

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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