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

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

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash
Vendordeepseekqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score66.3-
Input Price$0.15/M$0.15/M
Output Price$0.60/M$0.47/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_index65.1-

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashQwen: Qwen3.8 Flash
SQL Generation 141 133
Code Review 144 132
Code Completion 133 131
Code Refactoring 146 136
Bug Fixing 148 136
Unit Test Generation 131 124
Code Documentation 137 131
Regex Writing 126 119
CI/CD Pipelines 127 120
Frontend Component Design 129 122
Data Analysis 133 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 133
ETL Scripting 137 128
JSON Extraction 131 131
OCR / Document Parsing 134 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 131
Long-Document Summarization 148 137
Short-Form Summarization 127 123
Blog Post Writing 129 121

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

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