# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Gemini 4 Argon

> Gemini 4 Argon has enough public results to be ranked (#24); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-gemini-4-argon
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 62.0 to 40.4.
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 56.5 |
| Rank | — | 24 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1678 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 55% |
| SciCode | — | 61.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1550 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 82.2% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 13,718 |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 27.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1548 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1536 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1553 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 54.4% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1523 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1610 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1537 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1497 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1538 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1549 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1534 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1531 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1557 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Gemini 4 Argon?

Gemini 4 Argon has enough public results to be ranked (#24); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Gemini 4 Argon better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 40.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Gemini 4 Argon share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 4 Argon has 21.