DeepSeek-R1 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

DeepSeek-R1· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek-R1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 28.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 19% to 78.9%.

DeepSeek-R1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.55 input / $2.19 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek-R1.

Operational tradeoffs

Price$0.55 / $2.19Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.042%49.4%
BrowseComp49%63.8%
OSWorld-Verified44%58%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval92%
SWE-bench Verified49.2%72%
LiveCodeBench19%78.9%
SWE-bench Pro25%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro43%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro53%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR40%
BBH66%
LongBench v258%60.2%
MRCRv257%
ARC-AGI-21.3%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU90.8%
GPQA71.5%86.6%
SuperGPQA41%67.1%
MMLU-Pro84%86.7%
HLE14%
FrontierScience44%
SimpleQA30.1%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval83.3%93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM61%
MMLU-ProX60%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202344%
AIME 202479.8%
AIME 202545%
HMMT Feb 202340%
HMMT Feb 202442%
HMMT Feb 202541%
BRUMO 202543%
MATH-50097.3%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 19% and 78.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 47. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 28.3. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 40. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56 versus 44.5. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 47.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 83.3. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek-R1 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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