Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok 3 mini offers 11.5K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. Grok 3 mini is $0.57 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.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
9 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
Grok 3 mini
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Grok 3 mini
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Grok 3 mini
xAI