deepseek-v4-pro vs gemini-2.5-flash
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-2.5-flash: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-v4-pro outperforms gemini-2.5-flash on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-v4-pro
Input / 1M
$0.43
Output / 1M
$0.87
Context
1M
Model ID
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
gemini-2.5-flash
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
Context
1.0M
Model ID
google/gemini-2.5-flash
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro51.5%
gemini-2.5-flash27.0%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-v4-pro47.5%
gemini-2.5-flash22.2%
Math Indexmath
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-2.5-flash73.3%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro88.8%
gemini-2.5-flash79.0%
AIME 2025math
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-2.5-flash73.3%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-2.5-flash69.5%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-v4-pro46.2%
gemini-2.5-flash13.6%
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-v4-pro96.2%
gemini-2.5-flash31.6%
SciCodecoding
deepseek-v4-pro50.0%
gemini-2.5-flash39.4%
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-2.5-flash83.2%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro35.9%
gemini-2.5-flash11.1%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-v4-pro | gemini-2.5-flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $0.43 | $0.30 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.87 | $2.50 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 384K tokens | 66K tokens |
| Vision input | N/A | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | N/A | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google LLC (Gemini API) |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-v4-pro better than gemini-2.5-flash?
deepseek-v4-pro outperforms gemini-2.5-flash on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-2.5-flash have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, deepseek-v4-pro or gemini-2.5-flash?
deepseek-v4-pro is cheaper. deepseek-v4-pro costs $0.43/$0.87 per 1M input/output tokens, while gemini-2.5-flash costs $0.30/$2.50.
Can I use deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-2.5-flash through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro" and "google/gemini-2.5-flash", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-v4-pro supports up to 1M tokens of context. gemini-2.5-flash supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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