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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

deepseek logoDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Prodeepseek/deepseek-v4-proVSgoogle logoGoogle: Gemini 3.6 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.6-flash

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash wins on more metrics (5 of 8), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProGoogle: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Intelligence Index44.350.1✓
Coding Index59.469.2✓
GPQA Diamond89%93%✓
Design Arena Elo1313✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)—126✓
Latency—1.8s✓
Input price /M$0.435✓$1.50
Output price /M$0.870✓$7.50
Context window1.0M1.0M
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONReasoningToolsJSONVisionAudio
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro details →Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash details →