deepseek-v4-pro vs gemini-3.5-flash

Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-3.5-flash: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. gemini-3.5-flash outperforms deepseek-v4-pro on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks.

Benchmark comparison

Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro53.0%
gemini-3.5-flash52.0%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-v4-pro68.8%
gemini-3.5-flash70.1%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro92.8%
gemini-3.5-flash92.2%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-3.5-flash40.9%
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-v4-proN/A
gemini-3.5-flash95.3%
SciCodecoding
deepseek-v4-pro49.2%
gemini-3.5-flash53.1%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-v4-pro39.3%
gemini-3.5-flash42.7%

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-progemini-3.5-flash
Input price / 1M$1.74$1.50
Output price / 1M$3.48$9.00
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokens
Max output131K tokens66K tokens
Vision inputN/AYes
Tool callingYesYes
ReasoningYesYes
Prompt cachingYesYes
Computer useN/AN/A
ProviderFireworks AIGoogle LLC (Gemini API)

Questions people ask

Is deepseek-v4-pro better than gemini-3.5-flash?
gemini-3.5-flash outperforms deepseek-v4-pro on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-3.5-flash have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, deepseek-v4-pro or gemini-3.5-flash?
deepseek-v4-pro is cheaper. deepseek-v4-pro costs $1.74/$3.48 per 1M input/output tokens, while gemini-3.5-flash costs $1.50/$9.00.
Can I use deepseek-v4-pro and gemini-3.5-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 "fireworks/deepseek-v4-pro" and "google/gemini-3.5-flash", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-v4-pro supports up to 1M tokens of context. gemini-3.5-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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