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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 leads Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 30.4 to 11.9, and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs 2.0x less per output token ($1.50 vs $2.976 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 40 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 Replace Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek
Coding
38.7
Overall
50.0
Output $/M
$2.976
40
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.50
0
vs boards won of 40 shared

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B: which to pick

Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a coding score, 38.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for output tokens 2.0x cheaper ($1.50 vs $2.976 per million).

Model ADeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek38.7/1005 independent benchmarks$0.57 per solved taskModel BQwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwenNot benchmarked1 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
40
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 only
44
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
13
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 0423 38.7 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Knowledge, 18.7 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena WebDev: React: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 1441 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 1257, 30.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 $2.976 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.50 per million output tokens, 2.0x apart.
Context window
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 262K.

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 0423BarsQwen3 Coder 480B A35BTies
Coding70
Intelligence10
Reasoning40
Math20
Knowledge40
Web design50
General170
All shared boards400
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
Coding benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
SWE-bench VerifiedNot measured69.6%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
LMArena WebDev14471275DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
AA Coding Index59.4Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)77.4%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)11.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)49.9%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)26.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)50.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)51.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured58.5%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured18.9%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Terminal-BenchNot measured27.2%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
FrontierCode17.6%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
GSO-BenchNot measured4.9%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
WeirdML48.9%41.2%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
ALE-Bench1006.1461.4DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: coding14701412DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: software and IT14691393DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena WebDev: React14411257DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena WebDev: HTML14351287DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AA Intelligence Index30.411.9DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Epoch Capabilities Index149.1Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AA Agentic Index26.3Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1000Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps948Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1059Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)44.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)25.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)23.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)51.6%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured43.6%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Vending-Bench 2$3,285Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Reasoning benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
GPQA Diamond89.4%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured61.8%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured4.5%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)90.9%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Chess puzzles19.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Mystery game puzzles17.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14611372DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: expert14631338DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14661380DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%49.5%DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
AA Math IndexNot measured39.3Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured39.3%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
OTIS Mock AIME96.7%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 345.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
FrontierMath, tier 42.4%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
ProofBench16.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LMArena Text: math14431365DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: mathematical work14551367DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Knowledge benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
MMLU Pro87.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)80.3%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)59.4%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)61.4%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)72.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)40.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured78.8%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
SimpleQA Verified47.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LMArena Text: science14701347DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14661347DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: legal and government14641358DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: business and finance14431343DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Web design benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Design Arena: websites12341158DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Design Arena: UI components12191110DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Design Arena: game dev12281098DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Design Arena: data viz12031084DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Design Arena: 3D1253Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Design Arena: all code categories12401142DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Design Arena: SVG1139Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1149Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index170
General benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)62.9%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)75.1%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
IFBenchNot measured40.5%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured45.7%Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured
DTBench90.7%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LMCA41.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
Surface Evolver Bench40.0%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
CL-bench Life13.5%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 measured
LMArena Text14511357DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: instruction following14451355DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: creative writing14461333DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: English14591359DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: non-English14391346DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Chinese14811357DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: German14581325DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Japanese14461311DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Korean14091305DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: French14731398DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Spanish14571360DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Russian14531366DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: Polish14611344DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: multi-turn14681366DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: longer queries14581378DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: writing and language14471340DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14311317DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BLeader
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 0423$0.0028Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.0010Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423$0.077Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.019Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423$0.301Fits in one request
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B$0.075Fits in one request

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 0423 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
SpecificationDeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
MakerDeepSeekQwen
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedApril 24, 2026July 23, 2025
Context window1.05M262K
Input $/Mtok$1.358$0.30
Output $/Mtok$2.976$1.50
Coding index38.7Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it51
Cost per solved task$0.57Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 better than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding?

Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 has a coding score, 38.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for output tokens 2.0x cheaper ($1.50 vs $2.976 per million).

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 costs $1.358 per million input tokens and $2.976 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 and $1.50. Cost per solved task is known for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 only.

Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?

40 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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