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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs DeepSeek V3.2

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Winner summary

Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins 11 of 14 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · arena · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#98 by perf·no signal
QUIET
DeepSeek V3.2
#84 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
6.0x better value than Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.1 pts/$
$1.75/M
DeepSeek V3.2
168.3 pts/$
$0.32/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
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Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewDeepSeek V3.2
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +3.3
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
49.7
DeepSeek V3.2
52.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.9
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
42.6
DeepSeek V3.2
36.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
46.4
DeepSeek V3.2
41.7
ARC-AGI
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +35.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
21.5
DeepSeek V3.2
57.0
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +29.6
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
33.6
DeepSeek V3.2
4.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +109.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1436.4
DeepSeek V3.2
1326.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +49.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1473.9
DeepSeek V3.2
1424.4
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +24.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
38.0
DeepSeek V3.2
14.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +13.5
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
35.6
DeepSeek V3.2
22.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +2.1
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
4.2
DeepSeek V3.2
2.1
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V3.2 leads by +0.3
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
77.6
DeepSeek V3.2
77.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
DeepSeek V3.2
87.8
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +39.9
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
67.4
DeepSeek V3.2
27.5
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +24.7
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
64.3
DeepSeek V3.2
39.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewDeepSeek V3.2
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
49.752.9
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
42.636.7
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
46.441.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
21.557.0
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
33.64.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1436.41326.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1473.91424.4
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
38.014.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
35.622.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
4.22.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
77.677.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
92.887.8
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
67.427.5
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
64.339.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.2$0.25$0.38131K tokens (~66 books)$2.83