DeepSeek V3.2
by DeepSeek · deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 · #85 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
DeepSeek-V3.2 is a large language model designed to harmonize high computational efficiency with strong reasoning and agentic tool-use performance. It introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a fine-grained sparse attention mechanism...
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Pricing
Input
$0.269
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.40
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.302
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.134
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for DeepSeek V3.2 with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.302 | $0.0278 | — |
| 50% | $0.251 | $0.0211 | −24% |
| 90% | $0.211 | $0.0157 | −43% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.000254 | $0.2545 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.002552 | $2.55 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.00887 | $8.87 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.0423 | $42.35 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
24.7
AA composite quality
Coding Index
44.2
Math Index
59
Agentic Index
18.3
Output speed
0 tok/s
median
Time to first token
0s
median
Time to first answer
0s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.5% |
| LiveCodeBench | 59.3% |
| SciCode | 38.7% |
| AIME 2025 | 59.0% |
| IFBench | 49.0% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 39.0% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 32.6% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 78.9% |
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,201 |
| UI components | 1,190 |
| Data viz | 1,196 |
| SVG | 1,079 |
| 3D | 1,192 |
| Game dev | 1,191 |
| Code categories | 1,197 |
| ASCII art | 1,124 |
Specs
Context window
164K
tokens
Max output
66K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
DeepSeek