deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 vs gemini-2.5-flash
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gemini-2.5-flash — benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 outperforms gemini-2.5-flash on 7 of 8 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$7.00
Context
64K
Model ID
together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
gemini-2.5-flash
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
Context
1.0M
Model ID
google/gemini-2.5-flash
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R185.0%
gemini-2.5-flash78.4%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
gemini-2.5-flash68.3%
HumanEvalcoding
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.0%
gemini-2.5-flash88.5%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R149.2%
gemini-2.5-flash53.2%
MATHmath
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R192.2%
gemini-2.5-flash85.3%
AIME 2024math
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R179.8%
gemini-2.5-flash72.1%
MMMUmultimodal
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R174.8%
gemini-2.5-flash72.5%
LiveBenchreasoning
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R171.5%
gemini-2.5-flash64.2%
τ-bench Retailagentic
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1—
gemini-2.5-flash61.5%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 | gemini-2.5-flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $0.30 |
| Output price / 1M | $7.00 | $2.50 |
| Context window | 64K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 66K tokens |
| Vision input | — | Yes |
| Tool calling | — | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | Yes |
| Prompt caching | — | Yes |
| Computer use | — | — |
| Provider | Together AI Inc. | Google LLC (Gemini API) |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 better than gemini-2.5-flash?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 outperforms gemini-2.5-flash on 7 of 8 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gemini-2.5-flash have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 or gemini-2.5-flash?
gemini-2.5-flash is cheaper. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 costs $3.00/$7.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gemini-2.5-flash costs $0.30/$2.50.
Can I use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 and gemini-2.5-flash through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "together/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1" or "google/gemini-2.5-flash" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 supports up to 64K tokens of context. gemini-2.5-flash supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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