DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-5.1

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
753.9 B
Context
202,752
30d
626 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-5.1
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 5,435,964 626,063
Downloads all time 30.4 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2026-04-03
API input price / 1M tokens $0.28 $1.40
API output price / 1M tokens $0.42 $4.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.70 $5.80
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.028 $0.26
AA Intelligence Index 21.5 26.1
AA Coding Index 44.2 55.8
AA Agentic Index — 23.9
Max output tokens 65,536 131,072
API providers 11 13
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-5.1 $5.80

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 8.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

5.5 M188 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-5.1

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-5.1 · fp16 @ 198K ctx 4,457.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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