Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark

DeepSeek: R1 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.

Input delta: $0.04Output delta: $1.50Monthly delta: $95

Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.

Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.

MetricDeepSeek: R1Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Developerdeepseekqwen
Context Window64,00032,768
Max Output Tokens16,000
Input Cost / 1M Tokens$0.7000$0.6600
Output Cost / 1M Tokens$2.50$1.00
Projected Monthly Cost$234$139
Vision❌ No❌ No
Tool Calling✅ Yes❌ No
Structured Output❌ No❌ No
Reasoning✅ Yes❌ No
Web Search❌ No❌ No
TokenizerDeepSeekQwen
MMLU Score84.963.5
GPQA81.341.7

Price History

DeepSeek: R1 Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 17
$0.7000$1.60$2.50Mar 7Mar 10Mar 12Mar 15Mar 17

Current Input / 1M

$0.7000

Current Output / 1M

$2.50

Price History

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens+230.0%Output / 1M tokens+400.0%
Mar 7Mar 17
$0.2000$0.6000$1.00Mar 7Mar 10Mar 12Mar 15Mar 17

Current Input / 1M

$0.6600

Current Output / 1M

$1.00

Cost Calculator

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01.0B
0500M

DeepSeek: R1

$234

per month

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

$139

per month

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Live Recommendation

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct saves $95/mo at this workload
Open DeepSeek: R1 model pageOpen Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct model page

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