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DeepSeek V4 FlashvsGemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks.

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Shared benchmarks
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Gemini 4 Argon leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
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both 1M 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 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
textvisionvideo
Context
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Max out
1M
Input /1M
$2 ↗
Output /1M
$10 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.1
Scores
12 · 3 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 4 ArgonΔEdge
Reported by both · 3
LMArena Elo1436 ↗1525.2 ↗-89.2Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1581 ↗1679.5 ↗-98.5Gemini 4 Argon
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)18.7% ↗57.6% ↗-38.9 ptGemini 4 Argon
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash reports · 25
GPQA Diamond91% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Agents' Last Exam25.2% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench Public25.1% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)33% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Cybergym76.7% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE54.4% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)53.3% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)24.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)57.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)46.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)75% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)79.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)65.5% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)86.6% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)34% ↗epoch runnot reported——
NL2Repo54.2% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified33.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal Bench 2.182.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified70.3% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)70.7% ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)63% ↗not reported——
Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 9
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported82.2% ↗——
AutomationBenchnot reported51.3% ↗——
CWE-bench v1not reported68% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported77.9% ↗——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)not reported55% ↗——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)not reported0.0757 ↗——
LVBenchnot reported91.7% ↗——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported53.6% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported13718.16 ↗——
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 4 Argon 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 4 ArgonEdge
Context window1M tokens——
Max output—1M tokens—
Input price / 1M—$2 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$10 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.1 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$12—
Modalitiestexttext · vision · videoGemini 4 Argon
Released2026-07-312026-09-30—
Cited benchmark scores2812—
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