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DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

deepseek-v3.2-speciale

Researched 32d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-16. Next refresh: weekly.

Open SourceCodingRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 3 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and long context
  • Workloads that can use a 164K context window
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads

Cheapest output

$0.420

DeepSeek Platform per 1M tokens

Provider routes

3

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Grade C

Ranked by benchmark score divided by cheapest output price

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 32d ago

aging

Top use-case fit

Coding

Q/$ C

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 3
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
DeepSeek Platform$0.280$0.420
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.400$1.20
Serverless
Microsoft Foundry--
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale available via OpenRouter. Pricing: $0.4/1M input, $1.2/1M output.

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale has a 164K-token context window.

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale input tokens at $0.28/1M, output at $0.42/1M.

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark Scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
SWE-bench Pro40.1DAT-1778

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyDeepSeek
Released2025-04-10
Context164K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral

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