Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Deepseek Coder v2 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 35.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 74.4 to 61.7.
  • Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Deepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index35.935.1
Released2024-06-172024-12-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2454

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%45.9%
LMArena Coding12511350
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%59.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
WeirdML—25.8%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Hard Prompts12071346
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
EnigmaEval—1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
DTBench—63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—135.36
LiveBench—66.9%
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Math12411352
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—57.8%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Expert11811339
GPQA Diamond—64.1%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English11821342
LMArena Chinese12011373
LMArena French11851391
LMArena German11641353
LMArena Japanese11261294
LMArena Korean11041313
LMArena Russian11881351
LMArena Spanish11531363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following11801336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query12191344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text11911354
LMArena Creative Writing11201340
LMArena Multi-Turn11771350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Deepseek Coder v2 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 35.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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