Estimate from the version's published specs, benchmarks and reviews, 0-5; scores are only comparable within one criteria year. Scored as launched; flagship DeepSeek-V3.2 (1 Dec 2025), Speciale was API-only on a temporary endpoint (no tool calls) at the same price. Reasoning null: AA's index version at launch was retired (AA's later 2026 index shows 21 estimated, 42 on v4.0 per AA's V4 article, neither a launch reading); DeepSeek claimed GPT-5 level and Speciale IMO/IOI gold. Coding null. Context 128K and $0.28 in / $0.42 out (pricing page, Wayback 5 Dec 2025; about $0.32 blended). Speed null. Text only. Reviews: Simon Willison, Composio test (DEV), DEV Community overview, eesel (analysis). api-docs.deepseek.com
Here's what I got from the Speciale model, which thought deeply about the geometry of bicycles and pelicans for a very long time (at least 10 minutes) before spitting out this result
DeepSeek V3.2 is far cheaper but noticeably slower and requires more manual fixes.
While still behind GPT-5 in some multi-step coding tasks, V3.2 demonstrates its strengths in bug fixing and code generation
The official technical report shows that the standard DeepSeek V3.2 model performs on par with GPT-5 on key benchmarks.
| DeepSeek-V3.2 · Dec 1, 2025 | 0.10 |
|---|---|
| How DeepSeek V3.2 is Redefining Open-Source AI: GPT-5 and Gemini Challengers · Dec 5, 2025 | 0.30 |
| Deepseek 3.2 Speciale vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet for agentic coding · Dec 16, 2025 | -0.30 |
| An overview of DeepSeek V3.2: Features, performance, and what it means for AI · Jan 6, 2026 | 0.50 |
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DeepSeek's[3] post "DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models" is dated December 1, 2025 and says V3.2 is "now live on App, Web & API"; its changelog lists "Date: 2025-12-01 DeepSeek-V3.2" and ETV Bharat's[6] 2 December report cites DeepSeek's 1 December launch post.
DeepSeek's[1][3] model card: MIT license, DeepSeek Sparse Attention, a scalable RL framework that makes V3.2 comparable to GPT-5 and V3.2-Speciale surpass it, gold-medal IMO and IOI 2025 performance and the agentic task-synthesis pipeline.
DeepSeek's[1] changelog entry for 2025-12-01: deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner upgraded to V3.2 (non-thinking and thinking), and Speciale served from a temporary endpoint with V3.2 pricing, no tool calls, until 15 December 2025 15:59 UTC.
OpenRouter's model record: released 2025-12-01, 163,840-token context, third-party provider prices starting at about $0.21 per million input tokens and $0.31 per million output tokens.
Technical report submitted 2 December 2025 by DeepSeek[1][3]-AI: describes DSA, the RL protocol with scaled post-training compute and the large-scale agentic synthesis pipeline behind V3.2 and Speciale.
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