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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-22.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	84.4
Input Price	$0.22/M	$0.38/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$1.88/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	384,000	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	85.1
ai_index_agentic	-	66.8
ai_index_coding	-	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
SQL Generation	133	170
Code Review	132	165
Code Completion	131	133
Code Refactoring	136	163
Bug Fixing	136	178
Unit Test Generation	124	153
Code Documentation	131	143
Regex Writing	119	136
CI/CD Pipelines	120	143
Frontend Component Design	122	145
Data Analysis	124	168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	154
ETL Scripting	128	153
JSON Extraction	131	148
Bulk Data Labeling	129	135
OCR / Document Parsing	131	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	146
Long-Document Summarization	137	159
Short-Form Summarization	123	131
Blog Post Writing	121	140

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