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Cactus Needle 2 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 40 116 | |
| Family | Needle | DeepSeek |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Sep 2025 |
| Context Window | 256 tokens | 164K tokens |
| Input Price | Free | $0.27/M tokens |
| Output Price | Free | $0.41/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. | — |
| Capabilities | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline | textcode |
| Max Output | 256 tokens | 66K tokens |
| API Identifier | Cactus-Compute/needle2 | deepseek/deepseek-v3.2-exp |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | 63.7cactus-compute | — |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | 42.6cactus-compute | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85deepseek |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79.9deepseek |
| AIME 2025 | — | 89deepseek |
| HMMT 2025 | — | 84deepseek |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 67.8deepseek |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 37.7deepseek |
| BrowseComp | — | 40.1deepseek |
| View Cactus Needle 2 | View DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | $0.27 | $0.21 | $0.48 | +0% |
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is a large language model from DeepSeek. Supports up to 163,840 token context window. Achieves 87.1% on MMLU. Available from $0.27/M input tokens.
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