DeepSeek R1 vs Gemma 3 12B
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against Gemma 3 12B by Google AI, in 2 community votes, gemma 3 12b wins 100% of head-to-head duels, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or Gemma 3 12B?
Gemma 3 12B is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 2 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.03/M for Gemma 3 12B. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and Gemma 3 12B
DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while Gemma 3 12B is from google. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.03/M for Gemma 3 12B. In community voting, In 2 community votes, Gemma 3 12B wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 2 community votes, Gemma 3 12B wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 2+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Gemma 3 12B is cheaper on both — 18× input, 73× output
Pick Gemma 3 12B. In 2 blind votes, Gemma 3 12B wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Gemma 3 12B is 73x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
