DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 at $0.161 in and $0.322 out and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct at $0.135 in and $0.523 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

DeepSeek

0.11¢

for a client proposal

$0.161 in · $0.322 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen

0.11¢

for a client proposal

$0.135 in · $0.523 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.22¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct at $0.135 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 at $0.322 per million tokens.
Largest context: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 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 V4 Flash 0423

0.05¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

0.05¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

0.11¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

0.11¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

2.6¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

0.6¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

0.52¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

4.1¢

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

needs 250K ctx

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 V4 Flash 0423

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

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Pricing

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Input / 1M tokens

$0.161

$0.135

Output / 1M tokens

$0.322

$0.523

Cached input / 1M

$0.032

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Specs

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Provider

DeepSeek

Qwen

Released

4 months ago

October 2025

Context window

1.05M

131K

Max output

393K

33K

Input

Text

Images and Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423

DeepSeek

0.05¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Qwen

0.05¢

for this task

51% input · 49% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.1¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 4,932 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.11¢.

For images or files, Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct can read them directly; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is text-only.

If you want to watch the model think, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

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 V4 Flash 0423 or Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 at 0.11¢; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct at 0.11¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct 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 0.22¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.22¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.