DeepSeek V3.2 Exp vs Rocinante 12B vs Grok 4.20
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp at $0.310 in and $0.471 out, Rocinante 12B at $0.287 in and $0.575 out, and Grok 4.20 at $1.44 in and $2.88 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
DeepSeek
0.19¢
for a client proposal
$0.310 in · $0.471 out / 1M
164K context · released September 2025
Rocinante 12B
Thedrummer
0.19¢
for a client proposal
$0.287 in · $0.575 out / 1M
66K context · released September 2024
Grok 4.20
xAI
0.95¢
for a client proposal
$1.44 in · $2.88 out / 1M
2M context · released 4 months ago
Asking all three at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal.
At a glance
- Cheapest input: Rocinante 12B at $0.287 per million tokens.
- Cheapest output: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp at $0.471 per million tokens.
- Largest context: Grok 4.20 at 2M tokens — about 2,900 pages.
Cost per task
Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.
Quick code fix
2K in · 500 outDraft a client proposal from notes
5K in · 800 outContext-heavy session (Alyph workspace)
155K in · 4K outAnalyze a 50-page legal contract
35K in · 1K outLarge architecture refactor
250K in · 3K outLong-context rate applied at this input size.
Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.
Cost vs Token Amount
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Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.
Pricing
Specs
Try it with real numbers
2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.
All 3, same prompt and context: 0.6¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.
Your $5 welcome credit covers about 828 of these.
Which should you pick?
For long documents, Grok 4.20 has the largest context window here — 2M tokens.
On price, Rocinante 12B is the cheapest of the three on a typical task, at about 0.19¢.
For images or files, Grok 4.20 can read them directly; DeepSeek V3.2 Exp and Rocinante 12B are text-only.
If you want to watch the model think, DeepSeek V3.2 Exp and Grok 4.20 show reasoning; the other answers directly.
Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all three, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →
Questions, answered
Which is cheapest — DeepSeek V3.2 Exp, Rocinante 12B, or Grok 4.20?
Which has the largest context window?
Can I run DeepSeek V3.2 Exp, Rocinante 12B, and Grok 4.20 side by side on Alyph?
Ask all three at once
Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 1.3¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.