Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) vs Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI): API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) is 79.4% cheaper ($273.00/mo vs $1323.75/mo), while DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) leads in token generation speed (150 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) (Fireworks AI) Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) (Together AI) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $3.000 $0.800 Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI)
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $1.500 $0.400 Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI)
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $8.00 $0.80 Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI)
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1230 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $1323.75 / mo $273.00 / mo Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) (-79.4%)
Context Window 160,000 tokens 32,768 tokens DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Output Speed (Throughput) 150 tokens/sec 115 tokens/sec DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Batch API Discount -50% (Fireworks AI) -50% (Together AI) Fireworks AI
Primary Workload Fit US/EU compliance enterprises needing DeepSeek R1 reasoning at 3x speed Automated unit test generation, SQL query authoring, IDE completion tools Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) → Try Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) → Open Full Simulator