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DeepSeek-V4-Pro vs Qwen3.6 27B

DeepSeek · released

Wins 5 of 7 areas

Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Math · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 7 areas

Long documents

DeepSeek-V4-Pro is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3.6 27B is better at long documents.

Scores updated · 37 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Long documents rests on a single test.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro$0.43 to read · $0.87 to write$1.30Price from Artificial Analysis
Qwen3.6 27B$0.60 to read · $3.60 to write$4.20Price from Alibaba's own price page

DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs 69% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.

Where DeepSeek-V4-Pro pulls ahead

  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+23.4points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro43Qwen3.6 27B19.6
  • Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+14.4points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro37.5Qwen3.6 27B23.1
  • Customer-service tasks in a simulated bankτ-Bench V3 · Banking+13.4points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro30.1Qwen3.6 27B16.7

Where Qwen3.6 27B pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+44.8points aheadQwen3.6 27B50.7DeepSeek-V4-Pro5.9
  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+2.6points aheadQwen3.6 27B77.3DeepSeek-V4-Pro74.7
  • Programming problems, refreshed regularlyLiveBench · Coding+1.8points aheadQwen3.6 27B71.8DeepSeek-V4-Pro70

Every test, side by side

All 37 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full coding ranking

AgentsDeepSeek-V4-Pro
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0DeepSeek-V4-Pro by 14.614.60+14.6
  • τ-Bench V3 · BankingDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 13.430.116.7+13.4
  • GDPValDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 8.532.924.4+8.5

Full agents ranking

ReasoningDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

MathDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full math ranking

Long documentsQwen3.6 27B
  • AA-LCRQwen3.6 27B by 2.674.777.3+2.6

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full following instructions ranking

Other results11 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, DeepSeek-V4-Pro or Qwen3.6 27B?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro wins five of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, math and following instructions. Qwen3.6 27B wins long documents. They are level on facts.

Which is better for coding?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro. It wins 8 of the 9 coding tests both models report; Qwen3.6 27B wins 1.

Which is cheaper?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.60 and $3.60. That makes DeepSeek-V4-Pro about 69% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 37 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 26 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 11 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.

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