DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-5

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

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
7.6 M
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
753.9 B
Context
202,752
30d
1.4 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-5
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 753.9 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 202,752
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 7,616,440 1,390,848
Downloads all time 35.7 M 3.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2026-02-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.26 $1.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.38 $3.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.64 $4.20
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.13 $0.20
AA Intelligence Index — —
AA Coding Index 44.2 —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 147,456 131,072
API providers 7 8
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
GLM-5 $4.20

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 6.6× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

7.6 M157 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-5

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
GLM-5 · fp16 @ 198K ctx 4,457.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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