DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~deepseek | |
| Quality Score | 99 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.04/M | $0.38/M |
| Output Price | $0.30/M | $1.88/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | - | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest costs $0.12 and Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) costs $0.84, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest is about 7.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Only Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) offers image input, audio input and video input.
Across the 16 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest scores higher on 6 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others), Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) on 10 (Code Review, Code Refactoring, Bug Fixing and others).
DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest was released in August 2026 and Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) in July 2026.
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) if you need image input, audio input or video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| Code Review | 131 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 135 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 135 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 123 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 119 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 91 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 123 | 124 |
| ETL Scripting | 127 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 85 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 85 | 131 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →