Across 18 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 scores higher on 16 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning on 1, with 1 level. The widest gap is Terminal-Bench Hard, where DeepSeek-V3.2 scores 35.6 against 11.4. DeepSeek-V3.2 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.28 against $0.40 per million input tokens).
Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (direct, alibaba-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.