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GPT-5.2 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5.2 · DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.2
#93 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#125 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
GPT-5.2
6.8 pts/$
$7.88/M
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
no price
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B