Comparisons

Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct vs Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

On provider list prices, Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct costs $0.80 per million input tokens against $0.80 for Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: effectively level. Output is $0.80 against $0.80. On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
LabDeepseekQwen
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window16K tokens16K tokens
List price, input$0.8 / M tokens$0.8 / M tokens
List price, output$0.8 / M tokens$0.8 / M tokens
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseCustom licenseQwen license
Fine-tunableYesYes

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $1,240 a month on Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct and $1,240 on Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct at list: a gap of $0.

Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct$0.80$0.80
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct$0.80$0.80
InputOutput

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Choose Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct for

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Common questions

Which is cheaper, Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct or Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?

Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.80/$0.80 per million tokens in and out against $0.80/$0.80 for Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct. Billed on Allocate: $0.86/$0.86 against $0.86/$0.86, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

They match: both read 16,384 tokens (16K) per request.

Can I fine-tune Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct or Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?

Both publish open weights (Deepseek Coder 33B Instruct: Custom license; Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct: Qwen license), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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