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DeepSeek V3.2 vs Qwen3 235B A22B

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

DeepSeek V3.2 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · arena · knowledge.

Category leads
coding·DeepSeek V3.2arena·DeepSeek V3.2knowledge·DeepSeek V3.2
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V3.2
#84 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 235B A22B
#60 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
3.4x better value than Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepSeek V3.2
168.3 pts/$
$0.32/M
Qwen3 235B A22B
49.6 pts/$
$1.14/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V3.2Qwen3 235B A22B
Aider polyglot
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +14.6
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
DeepSeek V3.2
74.2
Qwen3 235B A22B
59.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +50.0
DeepSeek V3.2
1424.4
Qwen3 235B A22B
1374.4
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +17.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
DeepSeek V3.2
77.9
Qwen3 235B A22B
60.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2Qwen3 235B A22B
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
74.259.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1424.41374.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
77.960.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.2$0.25$0.38131K tokens (~66 books)$2.83
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B$0.46$1.82131K tokens (~66 books)$7.96
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