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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)

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

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	80.1	70.3
Input Price	$0.11/M	$0.38/M
Output Price	$0.33/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	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	57.8	56.7
ai_index_agentic	79.4	49.8
ai_index_coding	100.0	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
SQL Generation	169	164
Code Review	161	158
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	159	157
Bug Fixing	175	169
Unit Test Generation	151	148
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	134	132
CI/CD Pipelines	141	139
Frontend Component Design	143	141
Data Analysis	167	160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	152
ETL Scripting	150	148
JSON Extraction	149	148
Bulk Data Labeling	135	134
OCR / Document Parsing	145	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	144
Long-Document Summarization	156	153
Short-Form Summarization	131	129
Blog Post Writing	137	135

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