DeepSeek V3.2
MIT-licensed open-weight frontier model with sparse attention, matching proprietary models at a fraction of the cost
About
DeepSeek-V3.2 is DeepSeek's December 2025 flagship, evolved from the experimental V3.2-Exp that introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) — a "lightning indexer" architecture that cuts long-context inference cost by more than half while holding capability steady (MMLU-Pro 85.0, AIME 2025 89.3 vs 88.4 prior).
The weights are MIT-licensed and fully open on the official deepseek-ai Hugging Face org (685B params, FP8), with day-one support in SGLang and vLLM, open-source GPU kernels (TileLang, FlashMLA), and Docker images for NVIDIA H200s / AMD MI350s. DeepSeek pairs this with its own API and an open agentic-tool protocol, and the final V3.2 was reported at 73.1% SWE-Verified and 46.4% Terminal Bench 2.0 (DeepSeek-reported).
For developers, this is the highest-value open frontier model of late 2025: self-hostable with permissive licensing, or cheap via the API.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported (DeepSeek, from HF model card / launch charts):
- AIME 2025: 89.3 | MMLU-Pro: 85.0 | Codeforces rating: 2121
- SWE-Verified (final V3.2): 73.1% | SWE Multilingual: 70.2% | Terminal Bench 2.0: 46.4%
- BrowseComp: 40.1 | SimpleQA: 97.1
Independent coverage: VentureBeat (2025-09-30) independently covered the launch, verified the MIT license and the >50% price cut, and noted the efficiency-vs-capability tradeoff. LMSYS SGLang team and vLLM shipped day-one support, implicitly validating the architecture's deployability. No independent end-to-end reproduction of DeepSeek's benchmark numbers was found.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF downloads 4,719,079 (peer-normalized); released 316 days ago. Manual review: 685B MoE; headline benchmarks vendor-reported; 256K context claim conflicts (128K verified); hosted API is Chinese-operated (data residency). License: MIT (verified in repo LICENSE file).
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 10.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 10.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · HF downloads 4,719,079 (peer-normalized)
- · released 316 days ago
- · manual review: 685B MoE; headline benchmarks vendor-reported; 256K context claim conflicts (128K verified); hosted API is Chinese-operated (data residency)