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DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Qwen3.6 27B

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4 Flash wins 8 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · coding · language.

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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Flash
#31 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.6 27B
#36 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
10.9x better value than Qwen3.6 27B
DeepSeek V4 Flash
533.3 pts/$
$0.13/M
Qwen3.6 27B
48.9 pts/$
$1.34/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V4 FlashQwen3.6 27B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +4.0
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
DeepSeek V4 Flash
31.1
Qwen3.6 27B
27.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +2.5
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
56.2
Qwen3.6 27B
53.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +3.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash
40.3
Qwen3.6 27B
37.0
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
DeepSeek V4 Flash
50.0
Qwen3.6 27B
50.0
LiveBench · Coding
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +2.6
DeepSeek V4 Flash
69.2
Qwen3.6 27B
71.8
LiveBench · Data Analysis
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +2.4
DeepSeek V4 Flash
68.0
Qwen3.6 27B
70.4
LiveBench · If
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +9.9
DeepSeek V4 Flash
63.1
Qwen3.6 27B
53.2
LiveBench · Language
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +6.8
DeepSeek V4 Flash
70.1
Qwen3.6 27B
63.3
LiveBench · Mathematics
Qwen3.6 27B leads by +0.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash
79.7
Qwen3.6 27B
79.9
LiveBench · Overall
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +1.7
DeepSeek V4 Flash
67.3
Qwen3.6 27B
65.6
LiveBench · Reasoning
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +0.3
DeepSeek V4 Flash
70.6
Qwen3.6 27B
70.3
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashQwen3.6 27B
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
31.127.0
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
56.253.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
40.337.0
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
50.050.0
LiveBench · Coding
69.271.8
LiveBench · Data Analysis
68.070.4
LiveBench · If
63.153.2
LiveBench · Language
70.163.3
LiveBench · Mathematics
79.779.9
LiveBench · Overall
67.365.6
LiveBench · Reasoning
70.670.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.08$0.171.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.05
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.6 27B$0.28$2.40262K tokens (~131 books)$8.14