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DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking is an experimental V3-series reasoning model with improved long-context efficiency compared with earlier V3 releases. FP8.
- Reasoning
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.28
- Output
- $0.42
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 163.8K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 917 tokens
- Longer than 68% of 468 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp ThinkingDeepSeekThis model | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash UncensoredDeepSeekRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 163.84K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 917 tokens | 643 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.28Best | $0.33 |
| Output | $0.42Best | $1.32 |
| Cache read | — | $0.0083 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 12.8 tok/s | 295.0 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 5.0 s | 4.3 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 85.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 16.6 | — |
| Math Index | 87.7 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking16.6
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored—
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: Better than 43% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 87.7
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 72.3%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 14.9%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 79.7%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 85.0%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 54.1%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 78.9%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 87.7%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 31.1%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 33.9%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 72.3%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 12.8 tok/s
- Faster than 2% of 259 models
- Time to first token
- 5.0 s
- Quicker than 33% of 259 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 79.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3.2-exp-thinking",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-ai/deepseek-v3.2-exp-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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