Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 offers 157.7K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is $2.62 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp was introduced as an experimental release, designed to test new architectural innovations and training methodologies. Built to explore the boundaries of mixture-of-experts design, it serves as a research preview for techniques that may be incorporated into future stable releases.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Thinking was developed as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the large-scale Qwen3 architecture. Built to combine deliberate analytical processing with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves tasks requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
2 months newer

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-25

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Novita
ZeroEval

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Novita