# DeepSeek-V3.2 Release

🚀 Launching DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale — Reasoning-first models built for agents!

- 🔹 DeepSeek-V3.2: Official successor to V3.2-Exp. Now live on App, Web & API.

- 🔹 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale: Pushing the boundaries of reasoning capabilities. API-only for now.

- 📄 Tech report: <https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf>

![](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v3.2_251201_benchmark.webp)

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# 🏆 World-Leading Reasoning

- 🔹 V3.2: Balanced inference vs. length. Your daily driver at GPT-5 level performance.

- 🔹 V3.2-Speciale: Maxed-out reasoning capabilities. Rivals Gemini-3.0-Pro.

- 🥇 Gold-Medal Performance: V3.2-Speciale attains gold-level results in IMO, CMO, ICPC World Finals & IOI 2025.

📝 Note: V3.2-Speciale dominates complex tasks but requires higher token usage. Currently API-only (no tool-use) to support community evaluation & research.

![](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v3.2_251201_benchmark_table_en.png)

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# 🤖 Thinking in Tool-Use

- 🔹 Introduces a new massive agent training data synthesis method covering 1,800+ environments & 85k+ complex instructions.

- 🔹 DeepSeek-V3.2 is our first model to integrate thinking directly into tool-use, and also supports tool-use in both thinking and non-thinking modes.

![](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v3.2_251201_agent_benchmark.webp)

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# 💻 API Update

- 🔹 V3.2: Same usage pattern as V3.2-Exp.

- 🔹 V3.2-Speciale: Served via a temporary endpoint: base\_url="<https://api.deepseek.com/v3.2_speciale_expires_on_20251215>". Same pricing as V3.2, no tool calls, available until Dec 15th, 2025, 15:59 (UTC Time).

- 💡 V3.2 now supports Thinking in Tool-Use — details: [Thinking Mode guide](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/thinking_mode.md)

![](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/img/v3.2_thinking_with_tools_en.jpeg)

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# 🛠 Open Source Release

- 📦 DeepSeek-V3.2 Model: <https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2>

- 📦 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale Model: <https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale>

- 📄 Tech report: <https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf>
