DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B vs Qwen 3 32B
Architecture Comparison
SpecDeepSeek R1 Distill 70BQwen 3 32B
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters70.6B32.8B
Active Parameters70.6B32.8B
Layers8064
Hidden Dimension8,1925,120
Attention Heads6440
KV Heads88
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Memory Requirements
PrecisionDeepSeek R1 Distill 70BQwen 3 32B
BF16 Weights141.2 GB65.6 GB
FP8 Weights70.6 GB32.8 GB
INT4 Weights35.3 GB16.4 GB
KV-Cache / Token327680 B262144 B
Activation Estimate2.50 GB2.00 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM3 GPUs1 GPU
L40S4 GPUs2 GPUs
Quality Benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill 70BQwen 3 32B
Overall5080
MMLUN/A82.0
HumanEvalN/A55.0
GSM8KN/A90.0
MT-BenchN/A84.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B
Qwen 3 32B
MMLU
82.0
HumanEval
55.0
GSM8K
90.0
MT-Bench
84.0
Capabilities
FeatureDeepSeek R1 Distill 70BQwen 3 32B
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✗ No✗ No
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✓ Yes✓ Yes
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes
API Pricing Comparison
Cheapest Output (DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B)
$0.88/M
Input: $0.88/M
Cheapest Output (Qwen 3 32B)
$0.80/M
Input: $0.80/M
| Provider | DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B In $/M | Out $/M | Qwen 3 32B In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.88 | $0.88 | $0.80 | $0.80 |
| fireworks | $0.90 | $0.90 | $0.90 | $0.90 |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣Qwen 3 32B scores higher on overall quality (80 vs 50).
- ‣Qwen 3 32B is cheaper per output token ($0.80/M vs $0.88/M).
- ‣Qwen 3 32B has a smaller memory footprint (65.6 GB vs 141.2 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
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