Across 17 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on 0 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview on 17. The widest gap is TauBench V3 - Banking, where Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 51.3 against 6.4. DeepSeek-R1 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($1.35 against $2.00 per million input tokens).
Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (direct, direct), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.