Model comparison

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 34.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 48.9% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and 43.8% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
  • 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 Pro (May 2024) specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index40.332.1
Released2024-05-072024-02-15
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1045

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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 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%43.8%
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%57.5%
WeirdML—22.2%
LMArena Coding—1294
CadEval—34%
HumanEval+—79.3%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
Cybench—7.5%
BALROG—21%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%89.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index124.77131.73
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1296
DTBench—59%
ForecastBench—58.4
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—23.1%
Omni-MATH—36.4%
LMArena Math—1315
MATH Level 5—70.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
MMLU78.4%86.9%
GPQA Diamond—57.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
LMArena Expert—1279
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1161
Video-MME—75%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English—1312
LMArena Chinese—1331
LMArena French—1302
LMArena German—1286
LMArena Japanese—1292
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Russian—1320
LMArena Spanish—1311

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
IFEval—83.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text—1319
LMArena Creative Writing—1333
WildBench—81.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1296

Frequently asked questions

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

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); 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 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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