HEAD TO HEAD

DeepSeek R1 vs Qwen3 235B vs Discovery

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):DeepSeek R1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	DeepSeek R1 x	Qwen3 235B x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	6.7	7.6
VOICES	612	1,244	9,479
RANK	#52	#57	#3
CATEGORY	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	$0.23 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	$2.30 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Not enough talk yet	Usually gives correct answers	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Nobody is complaining yet	People find it expensive	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.

HEAD TO HEAD

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):DeepSeek R1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	DeepSeek R1 x	Qwen3 235B x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	6.7	7.6
VOICES	612	1,244	9,479
RANK	#52	#57	#3
CATEGORY	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	N/A	$0.23 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	N/A	$2.30 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Not enough talk yet	Usually gives correct answers	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Nobody is complaining yet	People find it expensive	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.