DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-4.6

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
5.6 M
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
356.8 B
Context
202,752
30d
21 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-4.6
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 356.8 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM Glm4MoeForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 202,752
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 5,571,243 21,104
Downloads all time 30.7 M 825 K
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 $0.28 $0.55
API output price / 1M tokens $0.42 $2.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.70 $2.75
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.028 $0.11
AA Intelligence Index 21.5 18.5
AA Coding Index 44.2 45.8
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 65,536 131,072
API providers 11 4
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-4.6 $2.75

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 3.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

5.6 M19 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-4.6

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-4.6 · fp16 @ 198K ctx 2,110.0 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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