DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LongCat-2.0

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
meituan-longcat · B · Open weights
Params
1,775.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
3 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.2 LongCat-2.0
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 1,775.6 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM LongcatCausalLM
Context length 163,840 262,144
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,435,964 2,563
Downloads all time 30.4 M 9 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2026-07-05
API input price / 1M tokens $0.28 $0.30
API output price / 1M tokens $0.42 $1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.70 $1.50
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.028 $0.006
AA Intelligence Index 21.5 19.1
AA Coding Index 44.2 45.3
AA Agentic Index — 14
Max output tokens 65,536 262,144
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
LongCat-2.0 $1.50

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 2.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

5.5 M2 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 LongCat-2.0

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
LongCat-2.0 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 12,430.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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