DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 in and $1.29 out and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B at $0.345 in and $1.15 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.310 in · $1.29 out / 1M

164K context · released March 2025

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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $1.15 out / 1M

262K context · released July 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.52¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B at $1.15 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.13¢

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

0.13¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.26¢

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

$0.05

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

$0.06

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

1.2¢

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

$0.09

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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DeepSeek V3 0324

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

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Pricing

DeepSeek V3 0324

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.310

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$1.29

$1.15

Cached input / 1M

$0.155

$0.115

Specs

DeepSeek V3 0324

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Provider

DeepSeek

Qwen

Released

March 2025

July 2025

Context window

164K

262K

Max output

66K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2025-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.13¢

for this task

49% input · 51% output

Full pricing →

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen

0.13¢

for this task

55% input · 45% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.25¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,976 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, DeepSeek V3 0324 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.26¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3 0324 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): DeepSeek V3 0324 at 0.26¢; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V3 0324 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.52¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.52¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.