DeepSeek V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.2 only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 62. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 49.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 39% to 78.9%. DeepSeek V3.2 does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V3.2 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.2.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed35 t/sN/A
TTFT3.75sN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticDeepSeek V3.2 wins
Terminal-Bench 2.060%49.4%
BrowseComp62%63.8%
OSWorld-Verified55%58%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval76%
SWE-bench Verified45%72%
LiveCodeBench39%78.9%
SWE-bench Pro47%
SWE-Rebench60.9%
React Native Evals69%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro61%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro72%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR79%
BBH81%
LongBench v269%60.2%
MRCRv270%
ARC-AGI-24%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU84%
GPQA83%86.6%
SuperGPQA81%67.1%
MMLU-Pro73%86.7%
HLE11%
FrontierScience72%
SimpleQA81%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval85%93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX81%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202384%
AIME 202486%
AIME 202585%
HMMT Feb 202380%
HMMT Feb 202482%
HMMT Feb 202581%
BRUMO 202583%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 39% and 78.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 61.8. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 49.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 55. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

DeepSeek V3.2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 56. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 85. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 82.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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