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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · general.

Category leads
speed·DeepSeek V4.1 Flashgeneral·DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
#50 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 2.5 Pro
#116 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
17.6x better value than Gemini 2.5 Pro
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
159.2 pts/$
$0.38/M
Gemini 2.5 Pro
9.0 pts/$
$5.63/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
Head to head
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads by +12.5
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
39.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
27.0
Dtbench
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads by +12.5
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
83.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
70.7
Lmca
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads by +14.4
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
55.3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
40.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashGemini 2.5 Pro
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
39.527.0
Dtbench
83.170.7
Lmca
55.340.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.15$0.601.0M tokens (~524 books)$2.62
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$34.38