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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro vs Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Provider
Alibaba
Deepseek
Family
DeepSeek
Modality
image
text
Context window
—
1,048,576 tok
Max output
—
32,768 tok
Released
2026-10-10
2026-10-17
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Input price
—
$0.300 /1M
Output price
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$1.20 /1M
Per image
$0.040 /img
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Tools
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yes
Streaming
—
yes
Vision
—
yes
JSON mode
—
yes
Reasoning
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yes
Prompt caching
—
—
Batch API
—
—
Try it
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro
Full spec →
Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art
Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Full spec →

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.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

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Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 vs Grok 4.7
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Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 vs Decisions
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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-image-2.1-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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