Trinity Large Thinking vs DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 leads Trinity Large Thinking on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 21.5 to 10.8, at about the same output price ($0.88 vs $0.80 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 49 benchmarks have a result for both.
Trinity Large Thinking or DeepSeek V3.2: which to pick
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($0.80 vs $0.88 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 164K tokens).
- Shared results
- 49
- Trinity Large Thinking only
- 3
- DeepSeek V3.2 only
- 26
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 leads, 21.5 against 10.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Trinity Large Thinking has a AA Agentic Index result, 1.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a GPQA Diamond result, 80.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a AIME result, 84.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a MMLU Pro result, 84.9%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 leads, 1175 against 1137.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking $0.0006, DeepSeek V3.2 $0.0007 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has the number, $0.99.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Trinity Large Thinking not benchmarked, DeepSeek V3.2 30.0 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 17.3 points apart on average over 7 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): Trinity Large Thinking 38.0% against DeepSeek V3.2 73.3%, 35.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Trinity Large Thinking $0.80 against DeepSeek V3.2 $0.88 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens, DeepSeek V3.2 164K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Trinity Large Thinking | Bars | DeepSeek V3.2 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 7 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 5 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 2 | 4 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 8 | ||
| General | 0 | 19 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 47 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index07
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 70.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | Not measured | 59.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1238 | 1362 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| AA Coding Index | 25.8 | 44.2 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.7% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.6% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.1% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 86.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| SciCode | 40.6% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.7% | 35.6% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 39.6% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1357 | 1453 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1362 | 1449 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1231 | 1350 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1240 | 1371 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 10.8 | 21.5 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 146.1 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 90.1% | 90.6% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 21.3% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $1,034 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 80.3% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | 84.0% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.8% | 24.6% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 57.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 4.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1342 | 1434 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1359 | 1436 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1356 | 1446 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 84.6% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 92.0 | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 92.0% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1365 | 1435 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1350 | 1440 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 84.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.1% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 57.9% | 55.4% | Trinity Large Thinking |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 54.7% | 51.0% | Trinity Large Thinking |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 93.9% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 86.2% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1355 | 1446 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1349 | 1440 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1345 | 1425 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1329 | 1410 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1137 | 1175 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1042 | 1146 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1078 | 1131 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1098 | 1158 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1081 | 1132 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1117 | 1163 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1016 | 1032 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1041 | 1083 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index019
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 56.3% | 60.7% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 38.0% | 73.3% | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| DTBench | Not measured | 85.6% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 28.8% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| CL-bench | Not measured | 12.4% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| CL-bench Life | Not measured | 7.4% | Only DeepSeek V3.2 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1425 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1326 | 1413 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1308 | 1400 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1356 | 1439 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1325 | 1409 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1371 | 1455 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1356 | 1413 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1312 | 1374 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1306 | 1370 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1366 | 1429 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1327 | 1424 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1338 | 1424 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1312 | 1419 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1320 | 1427 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1318 | 1428 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1317 | 1407 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1296 | 1395 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Arcee AI Trinity Large Thinking | DeepSeek V3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Arcee AI | DeepSeek |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | December 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 164K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $0.29 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.80 | $0.88 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 30.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.99 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Trinity Large Thinking better than DeepSeek V3.2 for coding?
Only DeepSeek V3.2 has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($0.80 vs $0.88 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 164K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Trinity Large Thinking or DeepSeek V3.2?
Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V3.2 costs $0.29 and $0.88. Cost per solved task is known for DeepSeek V3.2 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or DeepSeek V3.2?
Trinity Large Thinking, with 262K tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the Trinity Large Thinking vs DeepSeek V3.2 comparison based on?
49 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Trinity Large Thinking's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and DeepSeek V3.2's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.