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| Attribute | Qwen3 Coder Nextqwen3-coder-next | Claude Fable 5.2claude-fable-5.2 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.175 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Output | $1.40 / 1M | $40.00 / 1M | $0.80 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.175 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.175 / 1M | $16.00 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.175 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 262.1K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight causal language model purpose-built for coding agents and local development workflows. It employs a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 80B total parameters and only 3B activated per token, achieving performance comparable to models with 10–20× higher active compute. This efficiency makes it especially well suited for cost-sensitive, always-on agent deployments. Trained with a strong agentic focus, Qwen3-Coder-Next performs reliably on long-horizon coding tasks, complex tool interactions, and robust recovery from execution failures. With a native 256K context window, it integrates smoothly into real-world CLI and IDE environments and aligns well with common agent scaffolding used by modern coding tools. The model operates exclusively in non-thinking mode and does not emit <think> blocks, simplifying production integration for coding agents. | Claude Fable 5.2 is Anthropic's most capable model for advanced technical work and open-ended problem solving, delivering significant improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision over Fable 5.1. It excels at exceptionally complex tasks, including large-scale software migrations, electronic system design, and advanced scientific and mathematical research. With up to 30% faster output generation, clearer communication, and always-on adaptive extended thinking, Fable 5.2 supports configurable reasoning effort from low to max (default high), with thinking preserved across turns. Designed for frontier engineering, scientific discovery, and ambitious long-horizon agentic workflows, it complements Opus 5.5 as a specialized option for the most demanding technical challenges. | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek’s cost-efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, built on its innovative Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. Featuring 552B total parameters with 8B activated for input and 16B for output, it combines efficient inference with native multimodal understanding through jointly trained text and visual representations. Optimized for coding, terminal and computer-use agents, and long-horizon workflows, the model introduces compressed KV caching that reduces cache memory usage to approximately one-quarter of the previous Flash generation. DeepSeek reports that it surpasses V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and task completion time, making it well suited for cost-efficient autonomous agents, complex software engineering, and long-context analysis. |