Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
DeepSeek-V3.2 scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against Ling-3.1-flash-1019's 54.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Ling-3.1-flash-1019 leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents · All 4969 open weights comparisons
Which one, for what
Best for Teams with an eight-GPU server who want an MIT agent model with broad runtime support, or agents calling it through a hosted provider
Ahead on
- Risk, 50 against 45
Watch for
689.5 GB of FP8 files and no smaller build from DeepSeek or a runtime library, far beyond 107.4 GB
Best for Teams with a multi-GPU server that want an MIT-licensed flagship for long agent runs and coding
Ahead on
- Documentation and upkeep, 56 against 34
Watch for
574 GB in FP8 with no smaller build from inclusionAI, so no single machine under 690 GB of GPU memory runs it
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Documentation and upkeep Ling-3.1-flash-1019 +22
DeepSeek-V3.2 34
The model card earns 14 when read with DeepSeek's own V3.2 model card PDF, which adds intended use and a parameter count, leaving languages and a knowledge cut-off missing. Training data earns 5, a general description with no cut-off. Last change earns 5, as nothing in the repository has changed since 1 December 2025 (338 days on 4 November) and DeepSeek's deepseek-recipe has no V3.2 code. Responsiveness earns nothing, with no reply from a deepseek-ai member in any of the 40 most recent discussions. Version policy earns 5 for earlier versions kept apart without dated notes. File health earns 5 because loading and parsing reports wait without a reply.
Ling-3.1-flash-1019 56
Model card 11, Intended use (complex reasoning, multi-step tasks and agentic workflows), architecture, parameters (560B total, 25B active) and context (1M claimed) are on the card. Training data 15, the training-content summary the card links names the source categories (Common Crawl and other public datasets, commercially licensed data, the Ant Spider crawler, synthetic data), the size band (over 10 trillion text tokens), data collected up to about July 2026 and the filtering, without listing datasets with sizes. Last change 20, the newest commit, on 4 November 2026, edited the card, six days before this check, and the files went up on 27 October. Responsiveness 0, Neither of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (both opened on 27 October 2026) has a reply from an inclusionAI member. Version policy 5, the update went into a repository of its own and Ling-3.1-flash and Ling 3.0 stay in theirs. File health 5, the card states a 1M-token context while config.json gives 262,144 with no rope scaling, and its serve commands name the earlier repository as the model path. 11 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 56.
Risk DeepSeek-V3.2 +5
DeepSeek-V3.2 50
File safety earns 15, safetensors only but 10 off because prompts are built by running DeepSeek's Python from the repository. Provenance earns the full 15 for the deepseek-ai organisation and a SHA-256 on every shard. Safety evaluation earns nothing, since no results are published anywhere. Agent guidance earns nothing, since the notes about the parser and the developer role are usage notes, read alike for all three DeepSeek listings. Licence risk keeps the full 15 for plain MIT. The security programme earns 5 for the security@deepseek.com reporting address on DeepSeek's site, with no public advisories.
Ling-3.1-flash-1019 45
File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25), less 10 because the card's documented vLLM command passes --trust-remote-code, which runs the repository's configuration_bailing_moe_v3.py, since vLLM 0.33.0 registers no bailing_hybrid config of its own. Provenance 15, files in the inclusionAI organisation that inclusion-ai.org links to, per the Ling-3.0-tiny listing (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results for the model on its card or in the training-content summary. Agent guidance 0, the card has nothing on prompt injection, refusals or safeguards, and inclusionAI publishes no guardrail probe for this model as it did for Ling 3.0. Licence risk 15, MIT with no use policy, no field-of-use limits, no threshold and no clause letting inclusionAI change or revoke it. Security programme 0, www.inclusion-ai.org answers 404 for security.txt on 10 November 2026, and the Ling-3.0-tiny listing found no SECURITY.md or disclosure policy in the inclusionAI .github repository. 15 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 45.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | DeepSeek-V3.2 | Ling-3.1-flash-1019 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Risk | 20%20 | 50 | 45 | DeepSeek-V3.2 +5 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 34 | 56 | Ling-3.1-flash-1019 +22 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 58.6/100 | C 54.8/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | DeepSeek-V3.2 | Ling-3.1-flash-1019 |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | DeepSeek | inclusionAI (Ant Group) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2025-12-01 | 2026-11-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |
Verdicts
DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek-V3.2 is an MIT-licensed reasoning model trained for parallel tool calls, with thinking chosen per request, for long agent work. It needs about 690 GB of FP8 files, eight 80 GB GPUs in vLLM's recipe and prompts built from DeepSeek's Python. The main risk is neglect, with no file changes since December 2025 and no safety evaluation.
Ling-3.1-flash-1019
inclusionAI's newest flagship, a 560B hybrid mixture of experts under plain MIT that vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and llama.cpp run in released versions. It ships only as 574 GB of FP8, so it needs a multi-GPU server. The card overstates the context, documents little about tool calls, and has no safety results.
Before you call either
DeepSeek-V3.2
- Start it with vLLM's recipe, vllm serve deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --tokenizer-mode deepseek_v32 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser deepseek_v32 --reasoning-parser deepseek_v3
- It doesn't fit the 107.4 GB reference machine at any qualifying build, so call DeepInfra (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2) or deploy it on Fireworks instead
- Outside vLLM, build prompts with encoding/encoding_dsv32.py and wrap parse_message_from_completion_text in error handling, since DeepSeek says it handles well-formed output only
- Pick thinking or chat with thinking_mode, and read the reasoning from reasoning_content
- Send developer messages only for search-agent prompts, the only use DeepSeek gives that role
- Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 and keep prompts within 128K tokens
Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Serve it with SGLang 0.5.23 or later on 8 H200 or 4 GB300 GPUs, per the card, and use this repository's name as the model path, not the earlier one the card's command shows
- With vLLM pass
--trust-remote-code,--tool-call-parser ling3and--reasoning-parser ling3 - Set
chat_template_kwargsenable_thinkingfalse for direct answers. Reasoning comes back inreasoning_contentper SGLang's cookbook - Plan on 262,144 tokens of context. The 1M figure needs the YaRN override in SGLang's cookbook
- Use temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and top_k 20, per the card
- Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek-V3.2 or Ling-3.1-flash-1019?
DeepSeek-V3.2 scores 58.6 (C) on agent readiness against Ling-3.1-flash-1019's 54.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Ling-3.1-flash-1019 leads on documentation and upkeep.
Other comparisons with DeepSeek-V3.2 or Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Agents-A1-4B vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Agents-A1-4B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Apertus v1.5 8B vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Apertus v1.5 8B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Apodex-1.1-mini vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Apodex-1.1-mini vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Arete-27B vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Arete-27B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- BigBang-v1 vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- BigBang-v1 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Carbon-X vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Carbon-X vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Cosmos-Reason2-2B vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Cosmos-Reason2-2B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Darwin-36B-Opus vs DeepSeek-V3.2
- Darwin-36B-Opus vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Gemma 4 12B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Gemma 4 31B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Gemma 4 E2B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Gemma 4 E4B IT
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-4.5-Air
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-4.7-Flash
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-5.3
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-5.3-Flash
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs gpt-oss-120b
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs gpt-oss-20b
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Granite 4.2 30B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Granite 4.2 3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Granite 4.2 8B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Hy-Memory-30B-A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Hy3
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Inkling
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Inkling-Small
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Kimi K3
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Kolibri-1
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Kronos
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Laguna M.1
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Laguna S 2.1
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Laguna XS 2.1
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LBS-27B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LFM2.5-2.6B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LFM3-1.7B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LFM3-Audio-2B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LFM3-Omni-2B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs LFM3-VL-2B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ling-3.0-tiny
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniCPM-o 4.5
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniCPM5-2B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniMax-M2.5
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniMax-M2.7
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Mistral Large 4
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Muse Glimmer 30B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nanbeige4.3-33B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs occamy-1.0
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Olmo 3 7B Think
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ornith-1.5-122B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ornith-1.5-397B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ornith-1.5-9B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-0.8B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-2B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-4B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.5-9B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.6-27B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.8-27B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-Coder-Next
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Recursive Flint
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Ripple-65B Preview
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs SmolLM3-3B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Spark-X2.6-4B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)
- DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Gemma 4 12B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Gemma 4 31B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Gemma 4 E2B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Gemma 4 E4B IT vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- GLM-4.5-Air vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- GLM-4.7-Flash vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- GLM-5.3 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- gpt-oss-120b vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- gpt-oss-20b vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Granite 4.2 30B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Granite 4.2 3B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Granite 4.2 8B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Hy-Memory-30B-A3B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Hy3 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Inkling-Small vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Inkling vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Kimi K3 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Kolibri-1 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Kronos vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Laguna M.1 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Laguna S 2.1 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Laguna XS 2.1 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LBS-27B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LFM2.5-2.6B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LFM3-1.7B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LFM3-Audio-2B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LFM3-Omni-2B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- LFM3-VL-2B vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Ling-3.0-tiny vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniCPM-o 4.5
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniCPM5-2B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniMax-M2.5
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniMax-M2.7
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Mistral Large 4
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Muse Glimmer 30B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nanbeige4.3-33B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs occamy-1.0
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Olmo 3 7B Think
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Ornith-1.5-122B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Ornith-1.5-397B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Ornith-1.5-9B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-0.8B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-2B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-4B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.5-9B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.6-27B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.8-27B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-Coder-Next
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Recursive Flint
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Ripple-65B Preview
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs SmolLM3-3B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Spark-X2.6-4B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)
- Ling-3.1-flash-1019 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/deepseek-v3-2-vs-ling-3-1-flash-1019.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/deepseek-v3-2.json·/api/v1/tools/ling-3-1-flash-1019.json - From a terminal
anchor compare deepseek-v3-2 ling-3-1-flash-1019(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "deepseek-v3-2", "b": "ling-3-1-flash-1019"}at/mcp, no key