Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GLM 5 offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $1.99 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-5 is a large language model from Zhipu AI with 745 billion total parameters and 44 billion active parameters per inference, designed for agentic intelligence, advanced reasoning, and frontier-level performance. It features a 200K token context window and targets complex multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and tool use. GLM-5 is available via Zhipu AI's Z.ai platform under an MIT license.
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
GLM 5
Zhipu AI
2026-02-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM 5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
GLM 5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM 5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GLM 5
Zhipu AI