DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~deepseek | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 69.0 |
| Input Price | $0.04/M | $0.75/M |
| Output Price | $0.29/M | $3.75/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 384,000 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 67.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek Flash Latest costs $0.11 and Gemini 3.8 Flash costs $1.69, so DeepSeek Flash Latest is about 15.7 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Only Gemini 3.8 Flash offers audio input and video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek Flash Latest scores higher on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), Gemini 3.8 Flash on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick DeepSeek Flash Latest if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.8 Flash if you need audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 141 |
| Code Review | 132 | 144 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 132 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 146 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 148 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 132 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 137 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 128 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 130 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 134 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 134 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 137 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 134 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 134 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 138 | 148 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 129 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →