Model comparison
DeepSeek-V3 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.7 Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.0 to 20.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 37.8% for DeepSeek-V3 and 97.2% for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
- DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper at $0.24 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
- Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 164K.
- DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 59.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2026-08-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 164K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $0.75 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $3.75 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 44 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.8% | 59.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1497 |
| DeepSWE | — | 65.5% |
| FrontierCode | — | 43.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1592 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 20.3% |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 904.3 |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 67.8% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 5% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 23.8% |
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 14.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1494 |
| DTBench | 64.8% | 96.8% |
| LMCA | 15.5% | 50.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.94 | 157.27 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 84.6% |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 94% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 95.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 47% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 37% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
| PIQA | 84.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | — |
Math Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 97.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1507 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 71.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 36.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 58% |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | 94.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1351 | 1508 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 69.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 26.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 87.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1316 |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 26.7% |
Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1484 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1391 | 1548 |
| LMArena French | 1385 | 1505 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1498 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1512 |
| LMArena Korean | 1319 | 1483 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1516 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1503 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1483 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |
| IFEval | 83.2% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1352 | 1492 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.7 Flash leads
DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1486 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1490 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | 1723 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1489 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | — |
| WildBench | 83% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Gemini 3.7 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.8 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 3.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.7 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3 or Gemini 3.7 Flash?
DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.24 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.7 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.
Is DeepSeek-V3 or Gemini 3.7 Flash better for coding?
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.2 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 3.7 Flash share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44.