DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 (non-thinking mode) — official successor to V3.2-Exp. Reasoning-first model built for agents with GPT-5 level performance. Balanced inference vs. output length for everyday use. First DeepSeek model with thinking-in-tool-use capability. FP8.
- Tools
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.21
- Output
- $0.31
- Cache read
- $0.0216
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 163K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 408 tokens
- Longer than 40% of 465 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V3.2 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeekThis model | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Dec 1, 2025 | Jun 5, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 163K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 408 tokens | 1.1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.21Best | $1.25 |
| Output | $0.31Best | $10.00 |
| Cache read | $0.0216Best | $0.13 |
| Cache write | — | $0.38 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 46.8 tok/s | 189.7 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 3.2 sBest | 12.3 s |
| Request success (24h) | 99.6%Best | 99.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 16.0 | 16.1Best |
| Coding Index | — | 33.3 |
| Math Index | 59.0 | 87.7Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V3.2
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V3.216.0
- Gemini 2.5 Pro16.1
DeepSeek V3.2: Better than 40% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 33.3
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- DeepSeek V3.2: 59.0
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 87.7Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 2.2%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 302 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 455 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 10.2%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V3.2: 45.7%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 69.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 12.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V3.2: 11.2%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 22.5%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V3.2: 75.1%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 84.4%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- DeepSeek V3.2: 83.7%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 86.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek V3.2: 49.0%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 48.7%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 46.3%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- DeepSeek V3.2: 59.3%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 80.1%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- DeepSeek V3.2: 59.0%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 87.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 88.7%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- DeepSeek V3.2: —
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 96.7%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek V3.2: 32.6%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 26.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek V3.2: 78.9%Top
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 54.1%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V3.2: 45.7%
- Gemini 2.5 Pro: 69.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- DeepSeek V3.2
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek V3.2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1250.6 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1250.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
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
- 46.8 tok/s
- Faster than 34% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 3.2 s
- Quicker than 53% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 59.2%
- About $0.098 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.6%
- 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/deepseek-v3.2",
"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/deepseek-v3.2",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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