Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4o offers 8.4K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $11.13 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4o supports multimodal inputs. 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.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-4o
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-4o
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
GPT-4o
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-4o
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-4o
OpenAI