Neither wins outright: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is the pick when you need tool / function calling, Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small when cost matters at scale.
| Spec | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Inference.net |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.27 | $0.05 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.41 | $0.23 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.30 | $0.10 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 63% | 82% |
| Context window | 164K tokens (~246 pages) | 128K tokens (~192 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 35% | 14% |
| Max output per response | 147K tokens (~110,600 words) | 4K tokens (~3,100 words) |
| Input types | text | text |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | No |
| Listed since | 2025-09-29 | 2026-09-12 |
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
| Workload (per month) | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $28.45 | $8.35 | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small saves $20.10 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $36.50 | $8.30 | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small saves $28.20 |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens) | $37.32 | $8.76 | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small saves $28.56 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $24.06 | $5.38 | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small saves $18.68 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $13.91 | $2.73 | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small saves $11.18 |
| Capability | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | — | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | — | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | — | — | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | — | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | — | — | accept documents without your own parsing step |
| Image output | — | — | generate images, not just text |
| Built-in web search | — | — | answer from live web results |
| Seed (reproducible sampling) | — | ✓ Yes | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
| Date | Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | $0.27 | $0.41 |
| 2026-09-29 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | $0.13 | $0.20 |
Neither wins outright: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is the pick when you need tool / function calling, Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small when cost matters at scale. In short: DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp when you need tool / function calling, you need reasoning / thinking mode, you generate long outputs in one go; Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small when cost matters at scale, you need seed (reproducible sampling), you want the newer model.
Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small is cheaper: $0.10 vs $0.30 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 69% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $8.35 against $28.45.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp costs $0.27 per 1M input tokens and $0.41 per 1M output tokens; Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small costs $0.05 input and $0.23 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: 164K tokens, about 246 pages, against 128K (about 192 pages) for Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small.
Tool calling — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: yes, Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: yes, Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small: yes.
Neither accepts image input — both are text-in models.
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp can write up to 147K tokens (about 110,600 words) per response; Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small up to 4K (about 3,100 words).
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp was listed on 2025-09-29; Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small on 2026-09-12.
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: input price raised 50% ($0.13 → $0.27/1M), output price raised 51% ($0.20 → $0.41/1M) on 2026-09-30 (2 price changes since 2026-03-10). Inference.net: Schematron V2 Small: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-09-12.
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