Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)
83
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
81
Verified leaderboard positions: DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) #6 · Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) unranked
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+4.6 difference
Coding
+19.7 difference
Knowledge
+11.3 difference
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
$1.74 / $3.48
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1M
256K
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 83 versus 81. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High)'s sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 73.8 against 54.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 54.4% to 57.3%. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 83 to 81. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 54.4% and 57.3%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.9 versus 62.6. DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 54.1. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (High) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 65.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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