Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

DeepSeek V4 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.3 vs 54.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 43 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 43 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 3.5 Flash in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 32.8 to 24.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is APEX-Agents: 47.3% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 27.5% for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper at $0.66 / $1.98 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash specifications
DeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index54.354.2
Released2026-04-242026-05-19
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output393K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.66$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$1.98$9
Results tracked4854

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
SWE-bench Verified77.6%79.3%
LMArena WebDev15821499
SciCode51%53.1%
WeirdML66.2%62.6%
LMArena Coding14701492
ALE-Bench1,403911.02
DeepSWE—37.4%
FrontierCode28.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
APEX-Agents47.3%27.5%
Vending-Bench 23,2855,396
GBAEval—6.7%
GDP.pdf—14%

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
ARC-AGI-261.3%72.1%
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%92.6%
ARC-AGI-190.5%92.5%
CritPt18%13.1%
Chess Puzzles47%50%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611488
Mystery Game Puzzles43%32%
DTBench93.9%94.7%
LMCA45.5%47.1%
Surface Evolver Bench40%58.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.31154.46
ForecastBench56.159
SimpleBench—76.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%—
EnigmaEval—25.4%
EBR-Bench—4.8%

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)64.6%62.8%
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.6%76.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.6%95.6%
ProofBench50%31%
LMArena Math14551504
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—39%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—14.6%

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
GPQA Diamond91.7%92.8%
SimpleQA Verified52.9%66.2%
LMArena Expert14641495
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: —, Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Vision—1310
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
LMArena Document—1463

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English14391476
LMArena Chinese14861526
LMArena French14721490
LMArena German14581492
LMArena Japanese14451486
LMArena Korean14471451
LMArena Russian14531493
LMArena Spanish14581480

Instruction Following Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14481467

Long Context Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Longer Query14581482
CL-bench Life13.5%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProGemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Text14511482
LMArena Creative Writing14461470
EQ-Bench 411661087
LMArena Multi-Turn14671481
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Gemini 3.5 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.3 vs 54.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 49.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash share?

43 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54.

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