Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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 Codex, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a coding-specialized large language model from the GPT-5 family engineered for software engineering, code generation, and agentic development workflows. It builds on GPT-5's architecture with optimizations targeting multi-file code editing, test generation, and automated debugging. GPT-5 Codex targets developers and agentic coding tools requiring a model tuned specifically for programming tasks.
4 months newer

GPT-5 Codex
OpenAI
2025-08

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
GPT-5 Codex
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-5 Codex
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
GPT-5 Codex