Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Behemoth offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $4.63 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Behemoth 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.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Llama 4 Behemoth
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
Llama 4 Behemoth
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Llama 4 Behemoth
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI