DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking)
Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) by Google AI, in 3 community votes, deepseek r1 0528 and gemini 2.5 flash preview (thinking) are closely matched, context windows of 164K vs 1.0M, tested across 20 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 0528 or Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking)?
DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) are closely matched based on 3 community votes. DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $0.175/M for Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking). Context windows: 164K vs 1049K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking)
DeepSeek R1 0528 is made by deepseek while Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) is from google. DeepSeek R1 0528 has a 164K token context window compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking)'s 1049K. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $0.175/M for Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking). In community voting, In 3 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) are closely matched.
In 3 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) are closely matched. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 3+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Votes are tied. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (thinking) has a 1.0M context window vs 164K — handles longer documents.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek R1 0528 uses 40.2x more headings
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