DeepSeek V3.2 Exp vs Mercury
Compare DeepSeek V3.2 Exp by DeepSeek against Mercury by Inception, context windows of 164K vs 32K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
MercuryRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, DeepSeek V3.2 Exp has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is 25x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Input
$0.20
50× cheaper
Output
$0.40
25× cheaper
Mercury
Input
$10.00
Output
$10.00
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is cheaper on both — 50× input, 25× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
52%
Mercury uses 2.8x more emoji
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Mercury
55%Vocabulary55%
17wSentence Length40w
0.44Hedging0.39
5.8Bold4.9
4.2Lists3.8
0.02Emoji0.04
0.95Headings1.04
0.03Transitions0.03
Based on 20 + 17 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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