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DeepSeek: R1 0528 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking

DDeepSeek: R1 0528deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528VSQQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingqwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 0528Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Intelligence Index27.1✓26.7
Coding Index24.0✓19.5
GPQA Diamond81%✓76%
Design Arena Elo1222✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)26118✓
Latency648ms189ms✓
Input price /M$0.500$0.098✓
Output price /M$2.15$0.780✓
Context window164K262K✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONReasoningToolsJSON
DeepSeek: R1 0528 details →Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking details →