2 models · 1,898 observations · under measurement since 2 May

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Qwen 3.6 Plus

Kyma serves all of these, so the availability, throughput and latency below are its own readings rather than anybody's marketing. What each creator publishes about its own model is further down, kept separate, and clearly theirs.

Measured by Kyma1,898 observationssince 2 May
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek

4 obs

since 13 Sept (yesterday)

0 from Kyma's own probe

AlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus

Alibaba

1,894 obs

since 2 May

570 from Kyma's own probe

Availability, and how much of it we can actually see

Successful observations divided by total observations over the last 30 days, counting Kyma's own probe and real customer requests the same way. Same method and same figures as /models.

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Only one of these models has been measured for long enough to publish, so there is nothing to compare yet.

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
AlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus
not measured
70.2%
58%70.0%100%

The tinted band is the measurement's own grain. It is 0.2 points wide, which is what three failed requests are worth in the thinnest sample on this page. One or two is what luck looks like, so a lead has to clear all three before this page will call it. Scale starts at 58%, not at zero, and dot size is the size of the sample behind the figure.

Anything inside the band is level with the leader as far as this measurement can tell. Anything left of it is genuinely behind.

Throughput

Median tokens per second, from one identical prompt sent to every model every six hours, so the only variable left between two rows is the model.

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
not measured
AlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus
50 tok/s
Longer is better.

Latency

Median time to a complete response on that same fixed prompt. It moves with output length, so it is a reading on one prompt rather than a promise about yours.

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 Flash
not measured
AlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus
8.22 s
Shorter is better.

At least one model here has been measured for days rather than months. Its figures are real readings, not estimates, but they rest on a sample thin enough that a single failure would move them by a full point or more, which is why this page will not rank on them.

Price on Kyma

What a request costs today, per 1M tokens. A model on offer shows the rate you are actually charged and the date it returns to list.

FactDeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 FlashAlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus

Input

per 1M tokens

$0.27$0.4911

Output

per 1M tokens

$0.81$2.947

Cached input

repeated prefixes

not supportednot supported
Published by the creator

The specification each creator publishes for its own model, read straight from the catalogue Kyma serves from. Nothing in this block is a Kyma opinion.

FactDeepSeekDeepSeek V4.1 FlashAlibabaQwen 3.6 Plus

Context window

tokens in one request

1.05M1M

Max output

ceiling on one response

131K66K

Accepts

Text, imageText, image

Tool calling

YesYes

Reasoning

YesYes

Vision input

YesYes

Weights

Opendeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Closed

Below release precision

narrower than the creator shipped

None reportedNot established

What this instrument does not measure

This page carries no benchmark scores, so it will not tell you which model is smarter. It tells you which is cheaper, which is faster, which stays up, and what each one accepts. For the quality question, run both on your own prompts: one key, one line changed, and the answer is about your work rather than someone else's test set.

Every model above runs on one key and one balance. $0.50 of free-tier credit on signup, no card.Get API key

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