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30-Day Benchmark: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi & GLM Compared on Cost and Speed

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer benchmarked four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—over 30 days with 1,247 prompts across code, reasoning, and chat tasks. Qwen3-8B costs as low as $0.01 per million output tokens, while DeepSeek V4 Flash offered the best quality-per-dollar. The results show weak correlation between price and performance.

Meridian48 take
The benchmark is a useful real-world snapshot but lacks peer review and may not generalize to all workloads.
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