Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Minimax M 2.5 offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. Both models have similar pricing. 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.
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.5 is a large language model from MiniMax extensively trained with reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of complex real-world environments. It targets agentic tool use, coding automation, and office productivity tasks, with strong results on software engineering and web browsing benchmarks. M2.5 represents the next generation of MiniMax's M-series models optimized for production agentic workloads.
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax
2026-02-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Minimax M 2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
Minimax M 2.5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Minimax M 2.5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Minimax M 2.5
MiniMax