{
  "id": 1352075,
  "title": "I Tested DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM — Here's the Winner",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/i-tested-deepseek-vs-qwen-vs-kimi-vs-glm-heres-the-winner",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-16T21:10:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/fiercedash/i-tested-deepseek-vs-qwen-vs-kimi-vs-glm-heres-the-winner-43pa"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The report details the author's experience in comparing four Chinese AI models - DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM - through Global API's unified endpoint. They were initially skeptical about Chinese models' quality, but a friend's story led them to test these models. The author found that China's AI scene has grown significantly in recent years, with four major players each having unique strengths.\n\nThe TL;DR (short version) is that DeepSeek V4 Flash is the best value for price-to-performance at $0.25 per million output tokens, while Qwen offers a wide range of models from $0.01 to $3.20 per million, Kimi excels in reasoning tasks but at a higher cost of $3.00-$3.50 per million, and GLM is the top performer for Chinese-language tasks at $1.92 per million. All four models are OpenAI-compatible, requiring only a change in model name and base URL to switch between them.\n\nThe author provides a code snippet using the OpenAI SDK, demonstrating how easy it is to test different models. DeepSeek, developed by High-Flyer (幻方), performed exceptionally well with its V4 Flash model at a competitive price. The author highlights its impressive pricing, coding capabilities, speed, and transparent research background. However, it lacks vision capabilities and has fewer model sizes compared to Qwen.",
  "summary": "So here's what happened: i Tested DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM — Here's the Winner Okay, so I've been on this absolute rabbit hole for the past few weeks, and I have to share what I've found. You know how everyone's been talking about GPT-4o and Claude, but there's this whole other universe of Chinese AI models that are honestly punching way above their weight? Yeah, I went deep into it. Let…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}