DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

DeepSeek V4 Pro at $0.500 in and $1.00 out and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking at $0.230 in and $2.76 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.33¢

for a client proposal

$0.500 in · $1.00 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Qwen

0.34¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $2.76 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.67¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking at $0.230 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V4 Pro at $1.00 per million tokens.
Largest context: DeepSeek V4 Pro 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 Pro

0.15¢

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

0.18¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

0.33¢

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

0.34¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.08

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1.9¢

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

1.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$0.13

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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 Pro

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Input / 1M tokens

$0.500

$0.230

Output / 1M tokens

$1.00

$2.76

Cached input / 1M

$0.0042

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Specs

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Provider

DeepSeek

Qwen

Released

4 months ago

October 2025

Context window

1.05M

131K

Max output

384K

33K

Input

Text

Text and Images

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek

0.15¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Qwen

0.18¢

for this task

25% input · 75% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.33¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,496 of these.

Which should you pick?

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

On price, DeepSeek V4 Pro is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.33¢.

For images or files, Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking can read them directly; DeepSeek V4 Pro 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 V4 Pro pricing →Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): DeepSeek V4 Pro at 0.33¢; Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking at 0.34¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

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

Can I run DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking 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 0.67¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.67¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.