DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) vs Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) (DeepSeek AI) against Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) (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 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 V5 (Leaked Staging) Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 81.4% 78.6%
MMLU-Pro 87.5% 91.4%
MATH-500 96.8% 95.6%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.12 $1.20
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.48 $4.80