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  5. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpvsGemini 3 Pro Preview
Updated Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpvsGemini 3 Pro Preview

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is the newer model, released after Gemini 3 Pro Preview.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Gemini 3 Pro Preview compared across 8 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpGemini 3 Pro Preview
Input price$0.22/M tokens—
Output price$0.66/M tokens—
Context window1.0M tokens—
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Nov 2025
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp144 words
Sticky Soy-Glazed Midnight Noodles A sweet-savory, buttery noodle dish that comes together in about 20 minutes with pantry staples. Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or noodles 3 tbsp butter 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp honey ½ tsp chili flakes 1 tbsp sesame seeds Instructions: Cook the noodles…
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Gemini 3 Pro Preview350 words
Here is a recipe for a savory, satisfying dish that hits salty, sweet, nutty, and spicy notes. It uses ingredients found in almost every kitchen cupboard. The Dish: "Midnight Dragon Noodles" This is the ultimate comfort food.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp565 words
Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan built around three key pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Stress. The goal is small, repeatable habits — not perfection. The 3 Key Areas Nutrition Goal: Eat more whole foods, more protein, and more plants.
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Gemini 3 Pro Preview695 words
Here is a simple, actionable 1-month plan designed to build a foundation for longevity. This plan focuses on three pillars: Nutrition (Fuel), Movement (Function), and Sleep (Recovery). The strategy is progressive. Do not try to do everything in Week 1. Master the habits of the current week before adding the next.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp869 words
Here is how a large language model learns and generates text, tailored to each of your three audiences. To an Experienced Software Engineer You build distributed systems, so think of an LLM as a massively parallel, lossy compression engine for human text.
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Gemini 3 Pro Preview750 words
The Experienced Software Engineer Focus: Architecture, State Management, and Compression Think of an LLM not as a knowledge base or a database, but as an incredibly advanced, lossy compression algorithm for the entire internet.
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Our Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Input
$0.22
Output
$0.66
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Input
—
Output
—
Where to run it

5 hosts, cheapest first

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
FFireworks$0.22 in·$0.66 out·1M·99.8% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.8% upNNovita$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.9% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·97.2% upDDeepInfrafp8degraded$0.22 in·$0.65 out·1M·73.2% up
Gemini 3 Pro Preview

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is developed by DeepSeek while Gemini 3 Pro Preview is developed by Google AI. You can compare their actual outputs across 8 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Gemini 3 Pro Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 8 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Gemini 3 Pro Preview across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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