DeepSeek-R1 vs DeepSeek-V3.2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
1.6 M
mit · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
7.6 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek-V3.2
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 685.4 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM DeepseekV32ForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 163,840
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 1,618,845 7,616,440
Downloads all time 51.3 M 35.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-20 2025-12-01
API input price / 1M tokens $0.70 $0.26
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $0.38
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $3.20 $0.64
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.13
AA Intelligence Index 11.4 —
AA Coding Index 24.6 44.2
AA Agentic Index 1.1 —
Max output tokens 16,000 147,456
API providers — 7
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-R1 $3.20
DeepSeek-V3.2 $0.64

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 5.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.5 M649 K
DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek-V3.2

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-R1 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V3.2 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,815.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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