DeepSeek V3.2 review, price and benchmarks (2026)

legacy free open-weights api value

Provider

Statuslegacy

AA Intelligence Index24.7 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

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API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

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AccessOpen weights · cheap API

In one line

The 2025 generation that made ultra-cheap frontier-adjacent AI mainstream; superseded by V4.

Coding50

Reasoning46

Writing42

Agents & tools40

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).