DeepSeek-R1 vs Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI) against Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) (Alibaba Cloud).

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)

Developed by Alibaba Cloud · 1.2 Trillion (Sparse MoE) parameters

Repository-scale software engineering outscoring GPT-6 Sol, multilingual enterprise agents across 120 languages, and low-cost 1M-token processing.

Metric DeepSeek-R1 Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 49.2% 78.6%
MMLU-Pro 84% 91.4%
MATH-500 97.3% 95.6%
Context Window 128,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.55 $1.20
Output Pricing (per 1M) $2.19 $4.80