DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-4.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
5.4 M
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
358.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
114 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-4.5
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 358.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM Glm4MoeForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 131,072
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 5,435,964 113,929
Downloads all time 30.4 M 1.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2025-07-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.28 $0.60
API output price / 1M tokens $0.42 $2.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.70 $2.80
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.028 $0.11
AA Intelligence Index 21.5 12.8
AA Coding Index 44.2 —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 65,536 98,304
API providers 11 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 $0.70
GLM-4.5 $2.80

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 4.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

5.5 M117 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-4.5

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-4.5 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,648.9 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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