Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp from DeepSeek and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewDeepSeek’s officially released new multimodal visual-understanding model, DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash‑Vision‑Exp, is experimental in nature and supports multimodal inputs. In pure-text capabilities (agents, reasoning, world knowledge, etc.), DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash‑Vision‑Exp is on par with the official DeepSeek‑V4‑Flash release.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.284/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview: 1520; DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1483 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 1.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp accepts 1,000,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 983,616 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp at 81.2 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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