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DeepSeek-V4-Pro vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

DeepSeek · released

Wins 6 of 7 areas

Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Math · Long documents · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 0 of 7 areas

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DeepSeek-V4-Pro is the stronger all-rounder.

Scores updated · 38 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 and following instructions rest on a single test each.

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 35B A3B$0.38 to read · $2.25 to write$2.63Price from Alibaba's own price page

DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs 50% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

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

Where DeepSeek-V4-Pro pulls ahead

  • Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+34.7points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro83.4Qwen3.6 35B A3B48.7
  • Unpublished advanced math problemsFrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)+24.9points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro45.3Qwen3.6 35B A3B20.4
  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+24.2points aheadDeepSeek-V4-Pro43Qwen3.6 35B A3B18.8

Where Qwen3.6 35B A3B pulls ahead

Every test, side by side

All 38 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
  • BrowseCompDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 34.783.448.7+34.7
  • τ-Bench V3 · BankingDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 20.830.19.3+20.8
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0DeepSeek-V4-Pro by 14.614.60+14.6
  • GDPValDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 13.132.919.8+13.1
  • MCP AtlasDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 10.873.662.8+10.8

Full agents ranking

ReasoningDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

MathDeepSeek-V4-Pro

Full math ranking

Long documentsDeepSeek-V4-Pro
  • AA-LCRDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 374.771.7+3

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsDeepSeek-V4-Pro
  • IFBenchDeepSeek-V4-Pro by 12.176.564.4+12.1

Full following instructions ranking

Other results15 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 35B A3B?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, math, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3.6 35B A3B wins none. They are level on facts.

Which is better for coding?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro. It wins 7 of the 7 coding tests both models report; Qwen3.6 35B A3B wins none.

Which is cheaper?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.38 and $2.25. That makes DeepSeek-V4-Pro about 50% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 38 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 23 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 15 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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