DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs Qwen3.6-27B
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 DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek |  Qwen3.6-27BAlibaba | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Alibaba |
| Family | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Release date | 2026-04-22 | 2026-04-22 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Parameters | 284B (13B active) | 27B (dense) |
| Modality | text | text, vision, video |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Source | open weights | open weights |
| Description | Smaller, faster sibling to DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Same 1M context window with a much lighter 284B / 13B-active MoE. | Alibaba's first dense open-weight in the 3.6 family. Strong agentic-coding scores (77.2 SWE-bench Verified, matching Claude 4.5 Opus on Terminal-Bench 2.0). Supports 201 languages and multimodal text/image/video input. |
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