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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 wins 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
#76 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
#128 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.5x better value than DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
85.5 pts/$
$0.65/M
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
129.5 pts/$
$0.38/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Dtbench
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads by +46.7
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
84.9
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
38.2
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads by +55.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
88.0
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
32.2
Lmca
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads by +33.3
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
49.1
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
15.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads by +86.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
94.4
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
8.0
WeirdML
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 leads by +47.0
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
63.0
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
16.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Dtbench
84.938.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
88.032.2
Lmca
49.115.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
94.48.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
63.016.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731$0.02$1.281.0M tokens (~524 books)$3.31
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2.5 72B Instruct$0.36$0.4033K tokens (~16 books)$3.70