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DeepSeek V4 FlashvsGemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 13 of 21 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
8 – 13
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · Google
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · released 2026-07-31
text
Context
1M
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
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Cached /1M
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Scores
28 · 7 core
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google · released 2026-05-19
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$1.5 ↗
Output /1M
$9 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
42 · 12 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3.5 FlashΔEdge
Reported by both · 21
GPQA Diamond91% ↗epoch run92.8% ↗epoch run-1.8 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Elo1436 ↗1477.4 ↗-41.4Gemini 3.5 Flash
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)33% ↗epoch run50% ↗epoch run-17 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)53.3% ↗36.1% ↗+17.2 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)24.4% ↗epoch run26.8% ↗epoch run-2.4 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)57.5% ↗epoch run62.8% ↗epoch run-5.3 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)46.8% ↗49% ↗-2.2 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)75% ↗78.2% ↗-3.2 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)79.3% ↗64.9% ↗+14.4 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)65.5% ↗75.6% ↗-10.1 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.2% ↗84.6% ↗-5.4 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.8% ↗88.2% ↗-1.4 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)86.6% ↗82% ↗+4.6 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1581 ↗1499 ↗+82DeepSeek V4 Flash
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)34% ↗epoch run32% ↗epoch run+2 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.4% ↗epoch run95.6% ↗epoch run-1.2 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗76.7% ↗-15.6 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
SimpleQA Verified33.6% ↗epoch run66.2% ↗epoch run-32.6 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)18.7% ↗6.1% ↗+12.6 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)70.7% ↗67.3% ↗+3.4 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)63% ↗62.6% ↗+0.4 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash reports · 7
Agents' Last Exam25.2% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench Public25.1% ↗not reported——
Cybergym76.7% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE54.4% ↗not reported——
NL2Repo54.2% ↗not reported——
Terminal Bench 2.182.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified70.3% ↗not reported——
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash reports · 15
AIME 2026not reported95% ↗matharena ⚠——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported27.5% ↗——
ARC-AGI-2not reported72.1% ↗——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)not reported4.8% ↗epoch run——
GDPVal-AAnot reported1656 ↗——
Humanity's Last Exam (full set, text + MM)not reported40.2% ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1284.4 ↗——
MCP Atlasnot reported83.6% ↗——
MMMU-Pronot reported83.6% ↗——
OSWorld-Verifiednot reported78.4% ↗——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported49.9% ↗——
SWE-Bench Pro (Public)not reported55.1% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)not reported79.3% ↗epoch run——
Terminal-bench 2.1not reported76.2% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported5396.42 ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V4 Flash minus Gemini 3.5 Flash in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3.5 FlashEdge
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokensGemini 3.5 Flash
Max output—66K tokens—
Input price / 1M—$1.5 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$9 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.15 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$10.5—
Modalitiestexttext · vision · audioGemini 3.5 Flash
Released2026-07-312026-05-19—
Cited benchmark scores2842—
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