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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 · Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
#41 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
#34 by perf·#1 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
5.0x better value than Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
254.9 pts/$
$0.25/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
50.9 pts/$
$1.30/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.01$0.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.29
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507$0.20$2.4082K tokens (~41 books)$7.50