DeepSeek V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

DeepSeek V3.2 at $0.299 in and $0.437 out and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B at $0.161 in and $1.15 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

0.18¢

for a client proposal

$0.299 in · $0.437 out / 1M

164K context · released December 2025

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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Qwen

0.17¢

for a client proposal

$0.161 in · $1.15 out / 1M

262K context · released 5 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.36¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B at $0.161 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V3.2 at $0.437 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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 V3.2

0.08¢

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

0.09¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V3.2

0.18¢

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

0.17¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V3.2

4.8¢

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

3¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V3.2

1.1¢

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

0.68¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V3.2

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

4.4¢

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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80% Input20% Output

DeepSeek V3.2

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

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Pricing

DeepSeek V3.2

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.299

$0.161

Output / 1M tokens

$0.437

$1.15

Cached input / 1M

$0.149

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Specs

DeepSeek V3.2

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Provider

DeepSeek

Qwen

Released

December 2025

5 months ago

Context window

164K

262K

Max output

164K

262K

Input

Text

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

0.08¢

for this task

73% input · 27% output

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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Qwen

0.09¢

for this task

36% input · 64% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.17¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,918 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.17¢.

For images or files, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B can read them directly; DeepSeek V3.2 is text-only.

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 →

DeepSeek V3.2 pricing →Qwen3.5-35B-A3B pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Qwen3.5-35B-A3B at 0.17¢; DeepSeek V3.2 at 0.18¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V3.2 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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 0.36¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.36¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.