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DeepSeek V3.2-ExpvsKimi K2

DeepSeek V3.2-Exp leads 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 128K-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
5 – 0
DeepSeek V3.2-Exp leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 128K tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · Moonshot AI
DeepSeek V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek · released 2025-09-29
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128K
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Scores
17 · 7 core
Kimi K2
Moonshot AI · released 2025-07-11
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Context
128K
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Scores
18 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2-ExpKimi K2ΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
MMLU-Pro85% ↗81.1% ↗+3.9 ptDeepSeek V3.2-Exp
AIME 202589.3% ↗49.5% ↗+39.8 ptDeepSeek V3.2-Exp
Aider-Polyglot74.5% ↗60% ↗+14.5 ptDeepSeek V3.2-Exp
GPQA-Diamond79.9% ↗75.1% ↗+4.8 ptDeepSeek V3.2-Exp
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)39.5% ↗39.4% ↗+0.1 ptDeepSeek V3.2-Exp
Only DeepSeek V3.2-Exp reports · 12
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)19.8% ↗not reported——
LMArena Elo1424.9 ↗not reported——
BrowseComp40.1% ↗not reported——
BrowseComp-zh47.9% ↗not reported——
HMMT 202583.6% ↗not reported——
LiveCodeBench74.1% ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1271.8 ↗not reported——
SimpleQA (agentic tool use)97.1% ↗not reported——
SWE Verified67.8% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Multilingual57.9% ↗not reported——
Terminal-bench37.7% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)1034 ↗not reported——
Only Kimi K2 reports · 13
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)not reported2% ↗——
Humanity's Last Exam (Text Only)not reported4.7% ↗——
IFEval (Prompt Strict)not reported89.8% ↗——
LiveCodeBench v6 (Aug 24 - May 25)not reported53.7% ↗——
MMLU-Reduxnot reported92.7% ↗——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)not reported26.3% ↗——
SimpleQAnot reported31% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingual (Agentic Coding, single attempt)not reported47.3% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (Agentic Coding, single attempt)not reported65.8% ↗——
Tau2 airlinenot reported56.5% ↗——
Tau2 retailnot reported70.6% ↗——
Tau2 telecomnot reported65.8% ↗——
TerminalBench (Inhouse Framework)not reported30% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3.2-Exp minus Kimi K2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V3.2-ExpKimi K2Edge
Context window128K tokens128K tokensTie
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Input price / 1M———
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Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
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ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-09-292025-07-11—
Cited benchmark scores1718—
Reliability

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