Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#20); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • 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 3.1 Pro Preview specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index39.756.7
Released2024-05-072026-02-19
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$12
Results tracked1071

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.7 (#88)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
SWE-bench Verified—75.6%
DeepSWE—11.7%
LMArena WebDev—1446
SciCode—58.9%
GSO—22.6%
WeirdML—72.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding—1483
MirrorCode—8.9%
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%—
ALE-Bench—1,161
AlgoTune—2.02

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#33)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Terminal-Bench—80.2%
APEX-Agents—35.3%
τ²-bench Banking—26%
DeepResearch Bench—47.8%
PostTrainBench—22%
BALROG—57%
ExploitBench—26.1%
GBAEval—0.8%
GDP.pdf—17%
LMArena Search—1211
METR Time Horizons—77%
Vending-Bench 2—3,774

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#9)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Epoch Capabilities Index124.78154.92
ARC-AGI-2—77.1%
SimpleBench—79.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
ARC-AGI-1—98%
CritPt—17.7%
Chess Puzzles—55%
EnigmaEval—36.8%
Thematic Generalization—79.4%
EBR-Bench—14.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1484
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.1%
LMCA—53.8%
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
ForecastBench—59
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 61.8 (#28)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—59.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—86.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—95.6%
ProofBench—26%
LMArena Math—1485
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—36.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—16.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPQA Diamond—94.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—46.4%
SimpleQA Verified—73.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.4%
LMArena Expert—1484
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 38.1 (#60)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Vision—1296
Blueprint-Bench 2—26.5%
Furniture Assembly—26.7%
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.1 (#11)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English—1475
LMArena Chinese—1528
LMArena French—1488
LMArena German—1491
LMArena Japanese—1494
LMArena Korean—1458
LMArena Russian—1496
LMArena Spanish—1480

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.1 (#31)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Instruction Following—1465

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.3 (#17)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
CL-bench—20.8%
CL-bench Life—16.9%
LMArena Longer Query—1482

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.3 (#36)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Text—1480
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491
EQ-Bench 4—1142
LMArena Multi-Turn—1486

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#20); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.7 versus 39.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71.

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