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DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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2/6 models| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 40 80.8 | 24 17.3 |
| Family | DeepSeek | Gemini |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Sep 2025 | Jul 2026 |
| Context Window | 164K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $0.21/M tokens | $0.30/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.79/M tokens | $2.50/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.1300/M tokens | DeepMind model page lists $0.30 input and $2.50 output per 1M tokens with no caching in the performance table. The ai.google.dev API docs were attempted through ScrapingBee and returned HTTP 400, so exact billing details beyond the official DeepMind price table were not used. |
| Capabilities | textcode | textvisionaudio-inputvideo-inputpdf-inputreasoningcodingtool-usesearch-groundingcomputer-usestructured-output |
| Max Output | — | 64K tokens |
| API Identifier | deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus | gemini-3.5-flash-lite |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85deepseek | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 80.7deepseek | 83.8384artificial-analysis |
| AIME 2025 | 53.7deepseek | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.9deepseek | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.4deepseek | — |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 31.8deepseek | — |
| HLE | 21.7deepseek | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | — | 36artificial-analysis |
| SWE-Bench Pro | — | 54.2google-deepmind |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 54google-deepmind |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | — | 1140google-deepmind |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | — | 22.6607artificial-analysis |
| SciCode | — | 41.3194artificial-analysis |
| View DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus | View Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusCheapest | $0.21 | $0.40 | $0.61 | — |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.30 | $1.25 | $1.55 | +156% |
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus is a large language model from DeepSeek. Supports up to 163,840 token context window. Achieves 87.1% on MMLU. Available from $0.21/M input tokens.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google DeepMind general availability low-latency model for high-volume agentic systems, coding, document parsing, translation, and structured automation. Official DeepMind evidence lists 1M input tokens, 64k output tokens, text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, text output, tool use, Gemini API availability, and $0.30 input / $2.50 output pricing per million tokens.
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