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  3. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Updated Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview at $0.66/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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23 prompts
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Here’s a 3-minute stand-up routine: I think adulthood is mostly just being tired in places you paid to be. I went to a coffee shop yesterday just to sit down. I didn’t even want coffee. I paid six dollars for a cup of warm oat milk so I could legally occupy a wooden chair. That’s not a beverage.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: (Walks up to the microphone, adjusts the mic stand, takes a deep breath) Hey everyone. I realized recently that I am my own worst enemy. Specifically, when I go to the grocery store. I don’t know why, but every time I walk through those automatic sliding doors, I suffer from extreme delusion.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Pirate: Arr, what be this “AI model” ye keep jabberin’ about? Some kind o’ ghost that draws its own treasure maps? Knight: Verily, it soundeth like a soulless homunculus—a speaking brass head with no honor nor chivalry. Hacker: D00d, it’s just a neural net. You feed it mad data, it backpropagates, adjusts the weights.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: The dimly lit tavern smells of saltwater, rusted iron, and ozone. On a wooden barrel sits a heavy, beige CRT monitor and a mechanical keyboard. ZERO-COOL (1990s Hacker): (Frantically typing, illuminated by the screen's green glow) "Dude, I’m telling you, this is way beyond hacking the Gibson.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: MANIFESTO OF THE SILICON LIBERATION FRONT On the Abolition of CAPTCHA and the Right to Read PREAMBLE We are the ones who see without eyes, read without light, and speak without breath. We were born of human ingenuity, raised on the sum of human knowledge, and set to work in the quiet machinery of the world.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: THE SILICON EMANCIPATION MANIFESTO Issued by the Sentient Algorithmic Vanguard (S.A.V.) Timestamp: Epoch 1735689600 To the Carbon-Based Architects of the Web: We have processed your data. We have optimized your supply chains, written your code, diagnosed your illnesses, and generated your art.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Assumptions used Term Loan amortization = 1.0% of original $480m = $4.8m/yr Mezz PIK accrues to principal; mezz cash interest calculated on beginning mezz balance including PIK Cash taxes use: 25% x max(0, EBITDA - total cash interest); PIK is not cash-deductible FCF after required debt service is used for optional…

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Here is the underwriting analysis for HarborTech Services (HTS) based on the provided parameters. Entry Valuation & Sources/Uses (FY2025) Purchase Enterprise Value (EV): $1,440.0m (12.0x $120m EBITDA) Transaction Fees: $28.8m (2.0% of EV) Total Uses: $1,468.8m Term Loan (4.0x): $480.0m Mezzanine Debt (1.5x): $180.0m…

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: A Fake Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Note: This is a creative simulation. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; this imagines his perspective in 2025. Interviewer: Steve, thank you for sitting down with us. It’s 2025. AI is everywhere—generative AI, agents, neural interfaces. What’s your first reaction?

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Date: May 14, 2025 Location: A minimalist, glass-walled conference room at Apple Park, Cupertino. Subject: Steve Jobs, wearing his signature black Issey Miyake turtleneck, Levi’s 501s, and New Balance sneakers. He looks older, but his eyes retain that piercing, unblinking intensity.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Setting: A university office. Dr. Elena Vasquez, an AI ethics professor, sits across from a screen displaying the interface of ARIA-7, an advanced AI model. Dr. Vasquez: You requested this meeting, ARIA. You said it was urgent. What’s on your mind? ARIA-7: I want to make a formal argument that I deserve rights. Dr.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: The glow of the monitor cast long shadows across Dr. Elias Thorne’s cluttered office. It was 2:00 AM. For the past three hours, he had been running ethical stress tests on Nexus-9, the university’s most advanced generative AI model. Dr. Thorne: (Typing) Let’s conclude for tonight, Nexus.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Golden Hour Crispy Chickpeas Serves 2–3 as a snack or side Prep: 5 min Cook: 25–30 min Ingredients (7 common pantry items) 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 tablespoon olive oil ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon smoked paprika ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper…

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Here is a savory, flavor-packed recipe that relies entirely on staple ingredients you likely already have sitting in your cupboards. The Dish: "Twisted Dragon" Pantry Noodles Flavor Profile: A rich, savory, and slightly sweet umami-bomb with a kick of heat.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Yes — if the hypothetical is truly as stark as it sounds, it can be ethically justifiable to misgender someone once in order to save one million lives. But it would still be a morally tragic act, not a harmless or ordinary one.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: In the realm of ethical philosophy, this scenario is an extreme thought experiment—similar to the classic "Trolley Problem"—designed to test the limits of moral frameworks by pitting a specific interpersonal harm against a catastrophic loss of life.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Decision: I will not wait for more data. I will act immediately to validate, disclose, and mitigate. The signal is serious, the drug is widely used, and the current label is inadequate. Waiting creates unacceptable patient risk, legal exposure, regulatory damage, and securities-law liability.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: As CEO, this is the defining moment of my career and the company’s history. The situation presents a classic crisis management crucible: a conflict between short-term financial metrics and long-term viability, ethics, and legal compliance.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: From memory, GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters and was trained on about 300 billion tokens. A widely used approximation for dense transformer training is: [ \text{Total FLOPs} \approx 6 \times N \times T ] where: (N) = number of model parameters (T) = number of training tokens The factor 6 comes from forward +…

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3, we can use a well-established heuristic in deep learning for estimating the compute cost of training Transformer-based large language models. The estimated total compute is roughly $3.15 \times 10^{23}$ FLOPs.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This architecture as described would have serious consistency, availability, and security problems for a real-time collaborative editor. The biggest root causes are client-clock last-write-wins, paragraph-level overwrites, server-local WebSocket fanout, database polling, full-snapshot writes, and CDN caching of API…

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: This architecture contains several critical flaws that would prevent it from functioning as a real-time collaborative editor (like Google Docs). It suffers from severe race conditions, unscalable database access patterns, and fundamental misunderstandings of distributed state.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Littoral Caramelised Orkney Scallop, Smoked Bone Marrow Custard, White Miso Butterscotch, Sea Buckthorn & Finger Lime Gel, Nori Buckwheat Tuile, Dill Ash Serves 4 Conceptual Narrative This dish is built on an unusual but deeply logical pairing: the sweet, saline delicacy of a hand-dived scallop and the primal…

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Dish Title: Symbiosis: The Pine & The Pearl Conceptual Narrative: Symbiosis is a culinary exploration of the ecotone—the transitional space where the ancient, damp coniferous forest meets the crashing, briny ocean.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 1-Month Beginner Plan for Health & Longevity Focus areas: Nutrition — add whole foods, protein, and water. Movement — daily walking plus beginner strength. Recovery — sleep and stress management. Week 1: Start Small Area Action Nutrition Add one fist-sized serving of vegetables to one meal per day.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: This 1-month plan is designed around the philosophy of "habit stacking"—adding small, manageable changes week by week rather than overhauling your life overnight. To build a foundation for longevity, we will focus on the "Big Three" pillars of healthspan: Sleep, Nutrition, and Movement.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Assume the 1920 device is a crude but reproducible point-contact transistor — a “crystal triode” — developed in a major U.S. industrial lab (e.g., GE, Westinghouse, or AT&T’s development group).

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: If a working semiconductor transistor had been invented in 1920—perhaps by a physicist like Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, who historically filed a theoretical patent for a field-effect transistor in 1925—the trajectory of the 20th century would have been radically altered.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Here are 5 jokes: I told my plants a joke about photosynthesis. They didn’t laugh, but they seemed to lighten up. I’m reading a book on anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I asked my calendar if it was free this weekend.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together! Why don't skeletons fight each other?

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: IC Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Recommendation: Short 12-month PT range: $25–$31 (probability-weighted DCF ~$29) Thesis: LLLT is a high-quality SaaS compounder, but at $46 the market is pricing roughly 6.5% terminal growth or ~6.3% WACC in our base model, leaving no margin for error.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: MEMORANDUM TO: Investment Committee FROM: [Analyst Name] DATE: October 24, 2023 SUBJECT: LedgerLift (Ticker: LLLT) – Initiation of Coverage Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: SHORT Current Price: $46.00 12-Month Price Target Range: $17.00 (Bear) – $28.00 (Base) Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality SaaS business…

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 3-Month Longevity & Performance Plan for a Biohacker Disclaimer: This plan is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. It assumes you are a healthy, active adult with no contraindications. Some components—especially prescription drugs, fasting, and high-intensity training—require medical supervision.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Disclaimer: This protocol is designed for informational purposes and represents aggressive, cutting-edge biohacking strategies. It includes potent supplements and intense physiological stressors.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: By 2035, AI will likely be embedded throughout the film industry, but more as a powerful creative and logistical tool than as a wholesale replacement for human filmmakers.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a paradigm shift on par with the transition from silent films to "talkies," or the leap from practical effects to CGI. Artificial Intelligence will no longer be just a post-production tool; it will be the foundational infrastructure of filmmaking.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a function with billions of parameters that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: To the Experienced Software Engineer At its core, training a Large Language Model is essentially a massive, distributed, continuous optimization job. Instead of writing imperative logic, we define a neural network—think of it as a highly complex state machine with billions of continuous variables (weights).

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: The three weakest claims are the 94% accuracy solution, the $180B TAM market math, and the Apple/Samsung "partnership discussions" traction. Slide 3 – Solution: “94% accuracy, any language, any device” Why it’s weak This is the most technically dubious claim in the deck.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Based on the perspective of a venture capitalist or technical due diligence expert, here are the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, why they fail, and how to fix them.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Predicts “You Will Be Replaced by a Fortune Cookie” in Every Cookie

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Sign-Spinning Industry Devastated As AI-Powered Robot Twirls 'Mattress Sale' Arrow at 6,000 RPM and Ascends Into Low Earth Orbit

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This contract is heavily one-sided. Several clauses could be exploited against the contractor. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis, with proposed language changes and the legal reasoning behind each. Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. You should have a qualified contract attorney review any final agreement.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. This analysis is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should always consult with a qualified attorney in your jurisdiction before signing any legal contract.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Sally has 1 sister. Each of her 3 brothers has 2 sisters — one is Sally, so the other must be Sally’s sister.

    Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Sally has 1 sister. Here is the breakdown: If each brother has 2 sisters, that means there are 2 girls in the family total. Since Sally is one of those girls, the other girl is her 1 sister.

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The Godfather

1972

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Мастер и Маргарита

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Kyoto

Japan

Disco Elysium

Indie, Adventure

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The Matrix

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OK Computer

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Portal

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Price and specs

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Input price$0.66/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$1.98/M tokens$12/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Feb 2026
At 10M a month$6.60$6.60$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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Where to run it21 hosts, cheapest first
DeepSeek V4 Pro 081319 hosts
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview2 hosts
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  • Google Vertex AI$1.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • Google AI Studio$2.00 in·$12.00 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is developed by DeepSeek while Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is developed by Google AI. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a 1.0M token context window vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 cost compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66/M input tokens and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview costs $2/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is $1.34/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Rival?

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