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Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest

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

	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
Vendor	google	~deepseek
Quality Score	100	99
Benchmark Score	69.0	-
Input Price	$0.38/M	$0.03/M
Output Price	$1.88/M	$0.80/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,310,720
Max Output	65,536	943,718
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	-
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.5	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest
SQL Generation	141	133
Code Review	144	131
Code Completion	132	131
Code Refactoring	146	135
Bug Fixing	148	135
Unit Test Generation	132	123
Code Documentation	137	131
Regex Writing	126	119
CI/CD Pipelines	128	119
Frontend Component Design	130	91
Data Analysis	134	123
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	136	133
ETL Scripting	137	127
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	129	129
OCR / Document Parsing	134	85
Table Extraction from PDFs	134	85
Long-Document Summarization	148	137
Short-Form Summarization	126	123
Blog Post Writing	129	121

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