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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads Qwen3.6 Plus on coding, 56.1 to 44.1 on the Vibe Coding Index, at about the same output price ($1.98 vs $1.95 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 60 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Replace Qwen3.6 Plus
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek
Coding
56.1
Overall
60.8
Output $/M
$1.98
53
Qwen3.6 PlusQwen
Coding
44.1
Overall
56.2
Output $/M
$1.95
6
vs boards won of 60 shared, 1 tied

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Qwen3.6 Plus: which to pick

Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 1.0x cheaper ($1.95 vs $1.98 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: math or LMArena Text: mathematical work, where it leads.

Model ADeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek56.1/1005 independent benchmarks$0.10 per solved taskModel BQwen3.6 PlusQwen44.1/1003 independent benchmarks$1.19 per solved task
Shared results
60
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 only
18
Qwen3.6 Plus only
23
Like-for-like categories
7 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.

At a glance

Coding index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 56.1 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 Plus 44.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 18.6 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 82.3% against Qwen3.6 Plus 25.6%, 56.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $1.98 against Qwen3.6 Plus $1.95 per million output tokens, 1.0x apart.
Context window
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.6 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813BarsQwen3.6 PlusTies
Coding1201 tie
Intelligence20
Agentic work40
Reasoning90
Math22
Knowledge73
General171
All shared boards5361 tie
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index120
Coding benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
LMArena WebDev15821461DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
AA Coding Index68.854.5DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.5%86.0%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)96.4%73.4%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)14.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)82.3%25.6%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Code migration (Vals AI)41.5%11.1%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%0.0%Tie
IOI (Vals AI)51.6%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)54.7%53.2%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)17.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)53.8%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)72.9%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
SciCode51.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured43.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
FrontierCode28.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
WeirdML66.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
ALE-Bench1403.2670.1DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: coding14691467DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: software and IT14621462DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena WebDev: React15881454DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena WebDev: HTML15661463DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1472Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Intelligence Index36.027.0DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Epoch Capabilities Index155.6147.3DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Agentic work benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AA Agentic Index41.3Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
SREBench (Vals AI)1.9%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)50.4%40.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)26.8%7.7%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)40.9%14.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)10.8%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)52.8%32.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)4.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured97.7%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
APEX-Agents47.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Vending-Bench 2Not measured$5,115Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index90
Reasoning benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
GPQA Diamond92.4%87.4%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured84.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)92.8%88.2%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)41.0%27.8%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)91.7%88.4%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
ARC-AGI90.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
ARC-AGI-261.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
Chess puzzles46.0%14.0%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Mystery game puzzles43.0%12.0%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: hard prompts14581448DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: expert14591454DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14631455DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Math benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
AIMENot measured94.6%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
OTIS Mock AIME98.6%93.3%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 364.6%38.2%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
FrontierMath, tier 426.8%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
ProofBench50.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
LMArena Text: math14411449Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: mathematical work14431448Qwen3.6 Plus
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index73
Knowledge benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
MMLU Pro87.0%87.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
LegalBench (Vals AI)82.4%84.2%Qwen3.6 Plus
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)65.4%61.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
TaxEval (Vals AI)73.1%74.7%Qwen3.6 Plus
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured68.0%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
MedCode (Vals AI)42.5%36.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
SimpleQA Verified52.9%44.1%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: science14571439DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14461442DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: legal and government14591437DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: business and finance14421430DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1243Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1230Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1211Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1228Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1202Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1236Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1161Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1113Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index171
General benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
Vals Index53.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured44.9%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)80.2%77.0%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured51.5%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
IFBenchNot measured75.2%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)80.3%78.3%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DTBench93.9%81.9%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMCA45.5%33.1%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
CL-benchNot measured20.3%Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text14461436DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: instruction following14481424DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: creative writing14391404DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: English14571445DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: non-English14311424DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: Chinese14811477DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: GermanNot measured1451Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1390Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text: Korean14491379DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: French14461455Qwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text: Spanish14351432DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: Russian14481434DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1433Only Qwen3.6 Plus measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn14541438DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: longer queries14581439DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: writing and language14431418DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14241402DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 PlusLeader
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

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813$0.0016Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.0013Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813$0.039Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.022Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 Plus costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813$0.152Fits in one request
Qwen3.6 Plus$0.085Fits in one request

Qwen3.6 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.

Specifications of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Qwen3.6 Plus
SpecificationDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Qwen3.6 Plus
MakerDeepSeekQwen
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedAugust 12, 2026April 2, 2026
Context window1.05M1M
Input $/Mtok$0.66$0.325
Output $/Mtok$1.98$1.95
Coding index56.144.1
Independent measurements behind it53
Cost per solved task$0.10$1.19
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?

Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.1 for Qwen3.6 Plus. Pick Qwen3.6 Plus for output tokens 1.0x cheaper ($1.95 vs $1.98 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: math or LMArena Text: mathematical work, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Plus costs $0.325 and $1.95. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.10 and Qwen3.6 Plus $1.19.

Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Qwen3.6 Plus comparison based on?

60 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 Plus's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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