Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 46 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 46 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 5 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 42.3 to 28.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 37.8% for DeepSeek-V3 and 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
  • DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
DeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index39.535.1
Released2024-12-262024-12-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6054

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Aider Polyglot55.1%38.2%
WeirdML36.1%25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct50%45.9%
LiveBench Coding70.9%63.4%
LMArena Coding13681350
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%59.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
SciCode35.8%—
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SimpleBench27.2%31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%37.8%
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%78.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13651346
DTBench64.8%63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94135.36
LiveBench66.9%66.9%
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval—1.1%
LMCA15.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%—
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag88.9%—
PIQA84.7%—
WinoGrande85.2%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%57.8%
Omni-MATH40.3%45.9%
LiveBench Math73.5%75.8%
LMArena Math13731352
MATH Level 575.5%82.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%1.7%

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond67.6%64.1%
MMLU-Pro72.3%73.7%
Confabulations26.1%12.4%
GPQA (HELM)53.8%55.6%
LMArena Expert13511339
MMLU87.2%79.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%—
TriviaQA82.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English13581342
LMArena Chinese13911373
LMArena French13851391
LMArena German13741353
LMArena Japanese13331294
LMArena Korean13191313
LMArena Russian13731351
LMArena Spanish13581363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%85.8%
IFEval83.2%84.1%
LMArena Instruction Following13451336

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Fiction.LiveBench50%61.1%
LMArena Longer Query13521344

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text13751354
LMArena Creative Writing13641340
Short-Story Creative Writing77%73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14721128
WildBench83%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn13891350
LiveBench Language49.1%51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

46 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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