R1 0528 vs Qwen-Plus
Qwen-Plus costs 2.8x less per output token than R1 0528 ($0.78 vs $2.18 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 26 benchmarks have a result for both.
R1 0528 or Qwen-Plus: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
- Shared results
- 26
- R1 0528 only
- 34
- Qwen-Plus only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only R1 0528 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 13.1.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only R1 0528 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1149.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen-Plus
Qwen-Plus takes 1M tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen-Plus
R1 0528 $0.0016, Qwen-Plus $0.0006 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- R1 0528 not benchmarked, Qwen-Plus not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 26.5 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: R1 0528 66.4% against Qwen-Plus 17.8%, 48.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- R1 0528 $2.18 against Qwen-Plus $0.78 per million output tokens, 2.8x apart.
- Context window
- R1 0528 takes 164K tokens, Qwen-Plus 1M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | R1 0528 | Bars | Qwen-Plus | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 4 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 12 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 26 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 71.4% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.9% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| WeirdML | 41.6% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 804.1 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1427 | 1328 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1435 | 1343 | R1 0528 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1 board, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 13.1 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 36.5% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| METR time horizons | 53.8% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 16.4% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 81.3% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.8% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 76.3% | 48.1% | R1 0528 |
| ARC-AGI | 21.2% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.1% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| SimpleBench | 40.8% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1415 | 1317 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1394 | 1328 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1422 | 1333 | R1 0528 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 76.0 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 76.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 66.4% | 17.8% | R1 0528 |
| MATH level 5 | 96.6% | 65.3% | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1400 | 1326 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1415 | 1332 | R1 0528 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 84.9% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1430 | 1352 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1445 | 1350 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1419 | 1349 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1402 | 1303 | R1 0528 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1149 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1103 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1097 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1182 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1111 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1139 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1039 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 39.6% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 55.7% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 81.1% | Only Qwen-Plus measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 24.0% | Only Qwen-Plus measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75.0% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 81.9% | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1428 | 1326 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1382 | 1303 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1405 | 1292 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1437 | 1339 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1412 | 1310 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1442 | 1347 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1404 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1391 | 1251 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1360 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1417 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1411 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1423 | 1323 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1428 | Not measured | Only R1 0528 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1405 | 1336 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1391 | 1324 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1402 | 1296 | R1 0528 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1400 | 1270 | R1 0528 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen-Plus costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen-Plus costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen-Plus costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek R1 0528 | Qwen-Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 28, 2025 | February 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 164K | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.26 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.18 | $0.78 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is R1 0528 better than Qwen-Plus for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, R1 0528 or Qwen-Plus?
R1 0528 costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.18 per million output tokens; Qwen-Plus costs $0.26 and $0.78. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, R1 0528 or Qwen-Plus?
Qwen-Plus, with 1M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the R1 0528 vs Qwen-Plus comparison based on?
26 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. R1 0528's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen-Plus's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.