Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 53.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek

53.6

Rank #35 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek V4 Flash leads 60.3 to 49.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 56% for DeepSeek V4 Flash and 20% for Gemini 3 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
DeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index53.654.8
Released2026-04-242025-11-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked4167

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.9 (#59), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena WebDev15821440
WeirdML63%69.9%
LMArena Coding14571481
ALE-Bench1,3061,177
SWE-bench Verified—72.9%
FrontierCode18.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
SciCode49.9%—
GSO—18.6%
AlgoTune—1.83

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
DeepResearch Bench—46.3%
BALROG—58.1%
LMArena Search—1207
METR Time Horizons—71%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#30), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
ARC-AGI-261.4%31.1%
SimpleBench61.1%76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%94.4%
ARC-AGI-189%75%
CritPt16.6%6.9%
Chess Puzzles33%31%
LMArena Hard Prompts14441480
Epoch Capabilities Index154.49152.92
EnigmaEval—18.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA41.7%—
ForecastBench—61.2

Math DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.3 (#37), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.5%67%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%91.4%
ProofBench56%20%
LMArena Math14271476
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
Omni-MATH—55.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—18.8%

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.4 (#48), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond91%92.6%
LMArena Expert14411475
Humanity's Last Exam—37.5%
SimpleQA Verified33.6%—
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—13.6%
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
VPCT—91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.0 (#72), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English14201474
LMArena Chinese14681523
LMArena French14391492
LMArena German14181515
LMArena Japanese14061510
LMArena Korean13841448
LMArena Russian14281493
LMArena Spanish14361470

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 74.9 (#81), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following14211458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#85), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query14341471
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 63.8 (#61), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text14321479
LMArena Creative Writing14031482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15591525
LMArena Multi-Turn14491484
WildBench—85.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 53.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 47.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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