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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs Gemma 4 31B

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B · Gemma 4 31B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#175 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Gemma 4 31B
#101 by perf·#7 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
n/a
no price
Gemma 4 31B
245.6 pts/$
$0.22/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B————
Google DeepMind logoGemma 4 31B$0.09$0.34262K tokens (~131 books)$1.53