DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek-AI) against Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) (Alibaba Cloud).

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 552B parameters

High-throughput software engineering, autonomous coding loops, terminal agents, 1M long-context retrieval, and low-cost production inference.

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 V4.1 Flash Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 67.2% 78.6%
MMLU-Pro 78.4% 91.4%
MATH-500 92.6% 95.6%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.06 $1.20
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.22 $4.80