DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)

Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) by Google AI, in 8 community votes, gemini 2.5 pro (i/o edition) wins 71% of head-to-head duels, tested across 34 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.

Which is better, DeepSeek R1 0528 or Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)?

Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is the better choice overall, winning 71% of 8 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). Compare their real outputs side by side below.

Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)

DeepSeek R1 0528 is made by deepseek while Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is from google. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 0528 costs $0/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). In community voting, In 8 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 71% of head-to-head duels.

In 8 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 71% of head-to-head duels. Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 8+ human preference judgments for this pair.

Image Generation: Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 80% of votes
Our Verdict
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)Winner
DeepSeek R1 0528
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Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). In 8 blind votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 71% of the time. That's not luck.

Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) particularly excels in Image Generation.

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Similarity
90%
DeepSeek R1 0528
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
64%Vocabulary58%
10wSentence Length16w
0.30Hedging0.38
6.8Bold5.8
4.9Lists5.0
0.00Emoji0.00
0.40Headings0.63
0.00Transitions0.01
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