Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5 offers 296.8K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $148.63 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-5 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-5, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a large language model that combines direct generation and extended reasoning in a single unified system with a built-in routing mechanism. It features a 400K token context window, 128K maximum output tokens, native multimodal support (text, image, audio, video), and demonstrated strong results across coding, mathematics, visual understanding, and health benchmarks at release. GPT-5 targets complex multi-step tasks including advanced coding, mathematical problem solving, and long-context analysis.
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GPT-5
OpenAI
2025-08-07

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-5
Context window and performance specifications
GPT-5
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
GPT-5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-5
OpenAI