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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

DDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Expdeepseek/deepseek-v3.2-expVSQQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3Bqwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B wins on more metrics (5 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 ExpQwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Intelligence Index32.1✓31.5
Coding Index34.6✓17.6
GPQA Diamond75%82%✓
Design Arena Elo1229✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)20177✓
Latency1.3s264ms✓
Input price /M$0.270$0.150✓
Output price /M$0.410✓$1.00
Context window164K262K✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONReasoningToolsJSONVision
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp details →Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B details →