Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Qwen3-VL Plus?

DeepSeek V4 Pro, at $1.05 per million tokens against $1.43 for Qwen3-VL Plus, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

DeepSeek V4 Pro: $1.05 at LLMTR. Qwen3-VL Plus: $1.43 at Eden AI.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 7 providers sell both: LLMTR, TrustedRouter, Alibaba Cloud (China), LLM Gateway, Meganova, Alibaba Cloud, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is LLMTR.

Which holds more context?

DeepSeek V4 Pro, at 1M tokens against 262k.

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen3-VL Plus.

model vs model · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro takes 4 of 5 rounds against Qwen3-VL Plus. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $1.05 per million tokens against $1.43.

DeepSeekwins 4 rounds

DeepSeek V4 Pro

$1.05/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at LLMTR · $0.126 per 1,000 pages

1M context · tool calling · open weights

LLMTR ↗

Alibaba Cloud

Qwen3-VL Plus

$1.43/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at Eden AI · $0.14 per 1,000 pages

262k context · tool calling · reads images

Eden AI ↗

List price in (lower wins)

$0.43/M

$0.20/M

List price out (lower wins)

$0.87/M

$1.60/M

Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)

$1.05/M at LLMTR

$1.43/M at Eden AI

Standard price (lower wins)

$2.18/M

$2.20/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$0.126

$0.14

Context

1M tokens

262k tokens

Open weights

yes

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

yes

not stated

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

12 Aug 2026

23 Sept 2025

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

not stated

Providers selling both · 7

LLMTR$1.05 / $2.20
TrustedRouter$1.11 / $2.32
Alibaba Cloud (China)$2.18 / $1.86
LLM Gateway$2.18 / $2.20
Meganova$6.50 / $2.20
Alibaba Cloud$7.08 / $2.20
Eden AI$10 / $1.43

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DeepSeek V4 ProOpenRouter$0.58 / $1.74 $0.98 / $2.9570% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
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DeepSeek V4 ProStreamLake$0.58 / $1.74 $0.98 / $2.9570% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
DeepSeek V4 ProStreamLake$0.95 / $1.90 $0.96 / $1.910.8% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
DeepSeek V4 ProTrustedRouter$0.70 / $1.84 $0.16 / $0.6372% cheaper · 16 Sept 2026
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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Qwen3-VL Plus?: DeepSeek V4 Pro, at $1.05 per million tokens against $1.43 for Qwen3-VL Plus, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: DeepSeek V4 Pro: $1.05 at LLMTR. Qwen3-VL Plus: $1.43 at Eden AI.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 7 providers sell both: LLMTR, TrustedRouter, Alibaba Cloud (China), LLM Gateway, Meganova, Alibaba Cloud, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is LLMTR.
Which holds more context?: DeepSeek V4 Pro, at 1M tokens against 262k.

Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own catalog. The standard price blends three parts input to one part output; a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.