DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) vs Qwen 2.5 Max

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) (DeepSeek AI) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).

DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)

Developed by DeepSeek AI · 1.8 Trillion (Sparse MoE) parameters

Autonomous coding agents scoring 81.4% on SWE-bench Verified, zero-telemetry self-hosting, sub-cent 1M-token processing, and formal mathematical proofs.

Qwen 2.5 Max

Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters

Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.

Metric DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) Qwen 2.5 Max
SWE-bench Verified 81.4% 51.4%
MMLU-Pro 87.5% 77.2%
MATH-500 96.8% 89.4%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.12 $1.60
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.48 $6.40