Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale offers 3.9K more tokens in context window than GLM-4.5 Air. GLM-4.5 Air is $1.27 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 with 685 billion total parameters, made available for a limited period in December 2025. It was released without tool-calling support but demonstrated exceptional reasoning performance, achieving gold-medal results in the 2025 IMO and IOI competitions. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale targets research and benchmarking use cases requiring maximum reasoning capability under an MIT license.
Zhipu AI
GLM-4.5 Air is a lightweight variant from Zhipu AI's GLM-4 model family, designed for efficient deployments requiring lower inference cost while maintaining strong language understanding and generation capabilities. It targets cost-sensitive production workloads, API integrations, and applications where the full GLM-4.x series capacity exceeds requirements.
4 months newer
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI
2025-07-28

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM-4.5 Air
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
GLM-4.5 Air
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM-4.5 Air
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM-4.5 Air
Zhipu AI