DeepSeek VL2 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash
DeepSeek vs Google — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •Gemini 3.5 Flash has the higher intelligence index (92.2 vs 74.9)
- •Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper ($1.50 vs $9.50 per 1M input)
- •Gemini 3.5 Flash is faster
- •Gemini 3.5 Flash has a larger context window (1M)
| DeepSeek VL2 | Gemini 3.5 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 74.9 | 92.2 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | |
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 129,280 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Input price | $9.50 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Output price | $4,800.00 / 1M | $9.00 / 1M |
| Speed | 22 tok/s | 221 tok/s |
| Released | December 13, 2024 | May 19, 2026 |
| Parameters | 27000000000 | — |
| Input modalities | — | Text, Image, Audio, Video |
| Output modalities | — | Text |