Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#301); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 35.5.
  • DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index40.329.9
Released2024-05-072024-10-03
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1021

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding—1218
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1209
DTBench—50%
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index124.77—
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.6%
LMArena Math—1207

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
GPQA Diamond—33%
LMArena Expert—1185
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Vision—1044

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Non-English—1215
LMArena Chinese—1231
LMArena French—1234
LMArena German—1206
LMArena Japanese—1150
LMArena Korean—1140
LMArena Russian—1236
LMArena Spanish—1212

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Instruction Following—1199

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Longer Query—1219

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Text—1226
LMArena Creative Writing—1218
LMArena Multi-Turn—1185

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#301); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.

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