DeepSeek-V3.2 vs DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 August 2026.

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

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 685.4 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM DeepseekV32ForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 163,840
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,616,440 170,167
Downloads all time 35.7 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2025-09-29
API input price / 1M tokens $0.26 $0.27
API output price / 1M tokens $0.38 $0.41
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.64 $0.68
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.13 —
AA Intelligence Index — —
AA Coding Index 44.2 —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 147,456 147,456
API providers 7 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 $0.64
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp $0.68

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 1.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

7.6 M170 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

VRAM side by side

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

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

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