Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 2 offers 3.3K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $10.63 cheaper per million tokens. Grok 2 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.
xAI
Grok 2, released by xAI in August 2024, is a large language model with 131K token context window and native image understanding, developed with access to real-time information from the X platform. It features multimodal input capabilities and improved reasoning over its predecessor. Grok 2 targets conversational assistants, image analysis, and real-time information retrieval tasks via the xAI API.
1 year newer

Grok 2
xAI
2024-08-14

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