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DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale vs MiniMax M2

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.

Category leads
math·DeepSeek V3.2 Specialeknowledge·DeepSeek V3.2 Specialelanguage·DeepSeek V3.2 Specialecoding·DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
#6 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
MiniMax M2
#19 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.1x better value than DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
97.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
MiniMax M2
110.8 pts/$
$0.63/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeMiniMax M2
OpenCompass · AIME2025
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +16.9
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
96.0
MiniMax M2
79.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +8.0
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
86.7
MiniMax M2
78.7
OpenCompass · HLE
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +15.2
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
28.6
MiniMax M2
13.4
OpenCompass · IFEval
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +1.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
91.7
MiniMax M2
90.2
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +6.9
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
80.9
MiniMax M2
74.0
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale leads by +3.9
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
85.5
MiniMax M2
81.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeMiniMax M2
OpenCompass · AIME2025
96.079.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
86.778.7
OpenCompass · HLE
28.613.4
OpenCompass · IFEval
91.790.2
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
80.974.0
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
85.581.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.2 Speciale$0.40$1.20164K tokens (~82 books)$6.00
minimax logoMiniMax M2$0.26$1.00197K tokens (~98 books)$4.41