Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | Qwen3.8-Max alibaba/qwen3.8-max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Deepseek | Alibaba |
| Family | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 131,072 tok |
| Released | 2026-10-17 | 2026-08-02 |
| Input price | $0.300 /1M | $2.00 /1M |
| Output price | $1.20 /1M | $6.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | yes | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | yes | yes |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
We introduce DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 552B backbone parameters and support for contexts of up to one million tokens. The model natively processes images and text, and generates text autoregressively.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship built for professional-grade coding and long-horizon autonomous work, capable of delivering complete, production-grade projects spanning 10+ days across legal, financial, design, and other specialized domains. Native visual understanding of images and extended video runs through the full plan-execute-verify cycle, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Qwen3.8-Max — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3.8-max",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)