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Comparison2 AI assistants

Qwen or DeepSeek

Qwen is ahead of DeepSeek on the Celsius score: 39 against 35 out of 100. Qwen is ahead on performance and ethics, DeepSeek on environment.

QwenAlibaba ↗39-35Celsius score out of 100DeepSeekDeepSeek ↗
First assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok
Second assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok

Gaps by category

  1. Performance49430out of 100100

    Qwen is ahead of DeepSeek on performance: 49 against 43 out of 100.

  2. Ethics34180out of 100100

    Qwen is ahead of DeepSeek on ethics: 34 against 18 out of 100. Largest gap: "Safety", Qwen 33 against 8.

  3. Environment33450out of 100100

    DeepSeek is ahead of Qwen on environment: 45 against 33 out of 100. Largest gap: "Advanced queries", DeepSeek 58 against 17.

  4. Use3.4 %0% of AI sites' web traffic60

    Web traffic: 3.4% for DeepSeek; not measured for Qwen in our dataset. Among developers (OpenRouter): 5.6% for Qwen, 29.8% for DeepSeek.

  5. Price6 $3.96 $0$ per million output tokens, API50

    The DeepSeek API costs 1.5 times less for output: $3.96 against $6 per million tokens. Subscriptions: free (Qwen) and free (DeepSeek).

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