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Qwen3.8-27B vs DeepSeek V4-Pro

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Open-Weight Models · verified 13 Sept 2026

Qwen3.8-27BAlibabacurrent
DeepSeek V4-ProDeepSeekcurrent
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SpecificationQwen3.8-27BDeepSeek V4-Pro
Summary27B dense under Apache 2.0, and nearly five million downloads.Best all-round open model of 2026.
Context262K native, ~1M extended—
Input ($/Mtok)Weights only—
Output ($/Mtok)Weights only—
LicenceApache 2.0MIT
Max output32K—
Parameters27B dense—
Released5 Aug 2026—
Model IDQwen/Qwen3.8-27B—
CategoryOpen-Weight ModelsOpen-Weight Models
Official—DeepSeek ↗

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Qwen3.8-27B

  • 27B dense rather than a mixture of experts, so it behaves predictably on one machine
  • Apache 2.0, weights only, no hosted price
  • One of the most downloaded models on Hugging Face, with quantised builds everywhere

Best for running locally.

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DeepSeek V4-Pro

  • Tops open leaderboards on agentic coding and reasoning
  • MIT licence — no conditions
  • Pioneered aggressive cache-hit pricing at ~$0.07/M
  • DeepSeek routes all V4-Pro requests to V4.1 Flash from 14 September 2026

Best for everything open.

Full spec sheet →