# DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

On provider list prices, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B costs $1.60 per million input tokens against $0.50 for Qwen3.6 Plus: effectively level. Output is $1.60 against $3 (1.9x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | DeepSeek | Qwen |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $1.60 / M tokens | $0.50 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $1.60 / M tokens | $3 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | MIT | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | No |

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 $1,650 a month on Qwen3.6 Plus and $2,480 on DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B at list: a gap of $830, or 1.5x.

Qwen3.6 Plus reads 1M tokens per request against 128K for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, 7.6x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B for

- Open weights you can fine-tune and own
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)

## Choose Qwen3.6 Plus for

- The lower list price ($0.50 in / $3 out per M tokens)
- The longer context window (1M vs 128K tokens)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.50/$3 per million tokens in and out against $1.60/$1.60 for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B. Billed on Allocate: $0.54/$3.21 against $1.71/$1.71, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Plus: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 131,072 (128K) for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B.

### Can I fine-tune DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B publishes open weights (MIT) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Qwen3.6 Plus is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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