MiniMax M2.5 vs. DeepSeek-V3.2

MiniMax M2.5 is an advanced frontier model designed to deliver real-world productivity across coding, search, agentic tool use, and high-value office tasks. Built on large-scale reinforcement learning across hundreds of thousands of structured environments, it achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Verified, Multi-SWE-Bench, and BrowseComp. The model demonstrates architect-level planning capabilities, decomposing system requirements before generating full-stack code across more than ten programming languages including Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript, and Java. It supports complex development lifecycles, from initial system design and environment setup to iterative feature development and comprehensive code review. With native serving speeds of up to 100 tokens per second, M2.5 significantly reduces task completion time compared to prior versions. Reinforcement learning enhancements improve token efficiency and reduce redundant reasoning rounds, making agentic workflows faster and more precise. The model is available in both M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning variants, offering identical intelligence with different throughput configurations. Its pricing structure dramatically undercuts other frontier models, enabling continuous deployment at a fraction of traditional costs. M2.5 is fully integrated into MiniMax Agent, where standardized Office Skills allow it to generate formatted Word documents, financial models in Excel, and presentation-ready PowerPoint decks. Users can also create reusable domain-specific “Experts” that combine industry frameworks with Office Skills for structured, professional outputs. Internally, MiniMax reports that M2.5 autonomously completes a significant portion of operational tasks, including a majority of newly committed code. By pairing scalable reinforcement learning, high-speed inference, and ultra-low cost, MiniMax M2.5 positions itself as a production-ready engine for complex agent-driven applications.

DeepSeek-V3.2 represents one of the most advanced open-source LLMs available, delivering exceptional reasoning accuracy, long-context performance, and agent-oriented design. The model introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a breakthrough attention mechanism that maintains high-quality output while significantly lowering compute requirements—particularly valuable for long-input workloads. DeepSeek-V3.2 was trained with a large-scale reinforcement learning framework capable of scaling post-training compute to the level required to rival frontier proprietary systems. Its Speciale variant surpasses GPT-5 on reasoning benchmarks and achieves performance comparable to Gemini-3.0-Pro, including gold-medal scores in the IMO and IOI 2025 competitions. The model also features a fully redesigned agentic training pipeline that synthesizes tool-use tasks and multi-step reasoning data at scale. A new chat template architecture introduces explicit thinking blocks, robust tool-interaction formatting, and a specialized developer role designed exclusively for search-powered agents. To support developers, the repository includes encoding utilities that translate OpenAI-style prompts into DeepSeek-formatted input strings and parse model output safely. DeepSeek-V3.2 supports inference using safetensors and fp8/bf16 precision, with recommendations for ideal sampling settings when deployed locally. The model is released under the MIT license, ensuring maximal openness for commercial and research applications. Together, these innovations make DeepSeek-V3.2 a powerful choice for building next-generation reasoning applications, agentic systems, research assistants, and AI infrastructures.