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DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Base vs GPT-5.2

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Base · GPT-5.2 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Base
#123 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2
#154 by perf·#10 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Base
n/a
no price
GPT-5.2
6.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Base————
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13