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Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)

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

	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)
Vendor	google	deepseek
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	81.4	80.1
Input Price	$0.75/M	$0.11/M
Output Price	$3.75/M	$0.33/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	943,718
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	68.0	57.8
ai_index_agentic	67.8	79.4
ai_index_coding	100.0	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)
SQL Generation	168	169
Code Review	162	161
Code Completion	132	133
Code Refactoring	160	159
Bug Fixing	175	175
Unit Test Generation	151	151
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	134	134
CI/CD Pipelines	141	141
Frontend Component Design	143	143
Data Analysis	166	167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	153
ETL Scripting	151	150
JSON Extraction	148	149
Bulk Data Labeling	134	135
OCR / Document Parsing	145	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	145
Long-Document Summarization	156	156
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	137	137

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