DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale vs Microsoft: Phi 4

Side-by-side comparison — pricing, context window, capabilities, and live leaderboard data.

Key differences

  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale has a 164K-token context window — 10.0× larger than Microsoft: Phi 4's 16K.
  • Microsoft: Phi 4 is 77% cheaper per 1K input tokens than DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale ($0.0001 vs $0.0003).
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is built by DeepSeek; Microsoft: Phi 4 is built by Microsoft.

Specifications

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeMicrosoft: Phi 4
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Context window164K16K
Max output tokens81928192
Input price / 1K tokens$0.0003$0.0001
Output price / 1K tokens$0.0004$0.0001
Vision supportNoNo
Function callingNoNo
LicenseOpen SourceProprietary

About DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

CN·Open

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 optimized for maximum reasoning and agentic performance. It builds on DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) for efficient long-context processing, then scales post-training reinforcement learning...

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About Microsoft: Phi 4

US·Closed

[Microsoft Research](/microsoft) Phi-4 is designed to perform well in complex reasoning tasks and can operate efficiently in situations with limited memory or where quick responses are needed. At 14 billion...

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