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DeepSeek's cheap tier now scores higher than its expensive one on the independent board. Here is exactly where that holds, and the two places it does not.

One model costs 21x more per output token than the other. That is the least interesting thing about this comparison, and here is what the specs actually decide.

Two Chinese labs shipped a 2T-plus flagship seventeen days apart, and neither put the other on its benchmark chart. Here is what actually stacks, what the bill really looks like, and which one I would build on.

Alibaba called Qwen3.8-Max "second only to Fable 5". I lined both models up on price, context, availability and published evidence to see whether that holds.

Both models finally have published prices and published benchmarks. Here is what the numbers actually say, what they cannot say, and which one I would build on.

The $0.03 rate is real, and it is one of four meters on your invoice. Here is how the prompt bracket, the cache, the batch region and the retry rate combine into the number you actually get billed.

Qwen 3.7 Flash shipped with no blog post, no benchmarks and no weights. Here is the full spec sheet, the tiered pricing, and what Qwen never claimed.

Gemini 3.5 Pro still is not live as of July 2026. Here's what Google has actually confirmed, what you can run today, and what the delay means.

A straight answer on Gemini 3.5 Pro pricing: it isn't live yet. Here's what you pay for the current Pro tier, the consumer plans, and the real API math.