Gemini 2.5 Pro vs DeepSeek V3
Google Gemini vs DeepSeek — head-to-head specs and pricing.
Google's top multimodal model.
Gemini 2.5 Pro — strong reasoning, 2M context, native multimodal (text, image, video, audio).
Open-weights reasoning champion, rock-bottom pricing.
DeepSeek V3 — exceptionally low per-token pricing (10x cheaper than GPT-5). WARNING: Per DeepSeek ToS, prompts and responses may be used for model training and are processed on servers in China. Not recommended for sensitive workloads (healthcare, legal, financial) or EU data-residency requirements. Use for cost-sensitive consumer workloads where privacy is not a hard constraint.
| Spec | Gemini 2.5 Pro | DeepSeek V3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google Gemini | DeepSeek |
| Input cost / 1M tokens | $1.50 | $0.32 |
| Output cost / 1M tokens | $6.00 | $1.32 |
| Context window | 2,000,000 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Max output tokens | 8,000 | — |
| Streaming support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision input | ✓ | — |
| JSON mode | — | ✓ |
| Status | ACTIVE | ACTIVE |
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