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DeepSeek V3.2 vs o4 Mini
List-price comparison ·DeepSeek V3.2 details ·o4 Mini details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3.2 is the cheapest — 84% less than the priciest here ($48.28/mo vs $308.00/mo).
| DeepSeek V3.2 | o4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.269 | $1.10 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.400 | $4.40 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0005 | $0.0031 |
| Context window | 163,840 tokens | 200k tokens |
| Max output | 65,536 tokens | 100k tokens |
| Quality score | 79/100 | 82/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | DeepSeek V3.2 | o4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.4828 | $3.08 |
| 10,000 | $4.83 | $30.80 |
| 100,000 | $48.28 | $308.00 |
DeepSeek V3.2
Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.
Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.
o4 Mini
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