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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)

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

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)
Vendordeepseekqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score57.755.6
Input Price$0.22/MFree
Output Price$0.66/MFree
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index57.555.6

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpQwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)
SQL Generation 140 137
Code Review 142 137
Code Completion 133 130
Code Refactoring 145 136
Bug Fixing 146 141
Unit Test Generation 130 127
Code Documentation 137 131
CI/CD Pipelines 126 123
Frontend Component Design 128 128
Data Analysis 132 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 130
ETL Scripting 136 130
JSON Extraction 131 132
Bulk Data Labeling 129 130
OCR / Document Parsing 133 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 131
Long-Document Summarization 147 138
Short-Form Summarization 126 126
Blog Post Writing 128 125

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

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