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  5. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpvsGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Updated Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpvsGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview at $0.22/M vs $0.25/M input tokens.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview compared across 8 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpGemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Input price$0.22/M tokens$0.25/M tokens
Output price$0.66/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Mar 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 3 of the 8 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview255 words
Dish Name: Golden Garlic Butter Pasta This dish transforms humble pantry staples into a restaurant-quality meal. It’s comforting, aromatic, and incredibly simple.
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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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview524 words
This 1-month plan focuses on building compounding habits rather than radical changes. The goal is to establish a foundation that you can sustain for the rest of your life. We will focus on three pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep.
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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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview587 words
For the Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a database of facts, but as a lossy, high-dimensional compression algorithm for the internet’s semantic structure.
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Our Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has the edge: bigger model tier, newer.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Input
$0.22
1.1× cheaper
Output
$0.66
2.3× cheaper
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Input
$0.25
Output
$1.50

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper on both: 1.1× input, 2.3× output.

Where to run it

6 hosts, cheapest first

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
FFireworks$0.22 in·$0.66 out·1M·99.9% 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·97.1% upDDeepInfrafp8degraded$0.22 in·$0.65 out·1M·77.7% up
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Google AI Studio$0.25 in·$1.50 out·1M·99.7% up

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

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FAQ

Common questions

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is developed by DeepSeek while Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is developed by Google AI. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has a 1.0M token context window vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview's 1.0M. 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 3.1 Flash Lite 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.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.22/M input tokens and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview costs $0.25/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is $0.03/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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