DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Compare DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) by DeepSeek against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google AI, in 3 community votes, gemini 2.5 pro preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 128K vs 1.0M, tested across 44 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) or Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 3 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) costs $0.14/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. Context windows: 128K vs 1049K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) is made by deepseek while Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is from google. DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) has a 128K token context window compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05's 1049K. On pricing, DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) costs $0.14/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. In community voting, In 3 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 3 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 3+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) is cheaper on both — 8.9× input, 36× output
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. In 3 blind votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) is 36x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek V3 (March 2024) uses 25.6x more emoji
