
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 is a 671B-parameter MoE model activating 37B per token that delivers frontier-class reasoning and coding at the lowest API price in the industry - $0.14/$0.28 input, $0.42 output per million tokens.
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DeepSeek V3.2 is a 671B-parameter MoE model activating 37B per token that delivers frontier-class reasoning and coding at the lowest API price in the industry - $0.14/$0.28 input, $0.42 output per million tokens.

Zhipu's GLM-4.7-Flash is a 30B-A3B MoE model that posts 59.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 79.5% on tau2-Bench while running on a single RTX 4090 - MIT licensed and free via the Z.AI API.

Meta's Llama 4 Maverick packs 400B total parameters into a 128-expert MoE architecture with only 17B active per token, beating GPT-4o on Chatbot Arena while matching DeepSeek V3 on reasoning at half the active parameters.

Meta's Llama 4 Scout is a 109B-total, 17B-active MoE model with 16 experts and a 10M-token context window - the longest of any open-weight model - with native multimodal support for text and images.

Mistral Large 3 is a 675B-parameter MoE model activating 41B per token with native multimodal support, a 256K context window, and Apache 2.0 licensing - Europe's first frontier-class open-weight model.

NVIDIA's hybrid Mamba2+MoE model packs 31.6B total parameters but activates only 3.2B per token, delivering frontier-class reasoning with 3.3x the throughput of comparable models on a single H200 GPU.

A benchmark-by-benchmark comparison of Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and DeepSeek V3.2 - the efficiency-optimized underdog versus the brute-force open-source heavyweight.

A data-driven comparison of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and Meta's Llama 4 Maverick - two open-weight MoE models with radically different approaches to parameter efficiency and benchmark performance.

A data-driven comparison of Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and Mistral Large 3 - two Apache 2.0 MoE models where the smaller one dominates text benchmarks despite a 4x active parameter disadvantage.

Head-to-head comparison of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and GLM-4.7-Flash - two Chinese-origin 30B-A3B MoE models with Apache 2.0/MIT licenses that dominate different benchmarks despite near-identical parameter budgets.

David vs Goliath: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B activates 3B parameters and beats Llama 4 Scout's 17B active on MMLU-Pro, GPQA, and coding benchmarks - but Scout's 10M context window and native multimodal support tell a different story.

A data-driven comparison of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B - two ~30B MoE models activating ~3B parameters that take fundamentally different architectural approaches to the same problem.