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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Vendor	~deepseek	google
Quality Score	99	100
Benchmark Score	-	56.1
Input Price	$0.03/M	$0.75/M
Output Price	$0.80/M	$3.75/M
Context Window	1,310,720	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	-	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	56.1

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
SQL Generation	133	140
Code Review	131	142
Code Completion	131	132
Code Refactoring	135	145
Bug Fixing	135	146
Unit Test Generation	123	130
Code Documentation	131	136
Regex Writing	119	124
CI/CD Pipelines	119	126
Frontend Component Design	91	128
Data Analysis	123	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	135
ETL Scripting	127	135
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	129	128
OCR / Document Parsing	85	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	85	133
Long-Document Summarization	137	146
Short-Form Summarization	123	125
Blog Post Writing	121	128

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →