DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3 Flash

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Gemini 3 Flash is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 25. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Flash's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 65.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 24.9% to 67%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $3.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.27 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens for DeepSeek V3. That is roughly 2.7x on output cost alone. Gemini 3 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

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Coding

Gemini 3 Flash

DeepSeek V3

42

Gemini 3 Flash

70

42%
SWE-bench Verified
78%
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HumanEval
62%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.

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MMMU-Pro
81.2%

Reasoning

Gemini 3 Flash

DeepSeek V3

24.9

Gemini 3 Flash

65.9

24.9%
SimpleQA
67%
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MuSR
65%

Knowledge

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

69.6

Gemini 3 Flash

58.2

59.1%
GPQA
90.4%
88.5%
MMLU
70%
75.9%
MMLU-Pro
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SuperGPQA
67%
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OpenBookQA
65%
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HLE
33.7%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek V3

90.2

Gemini 3 Flash

69

39.2%
AIME 2024
72%
90.2%
MATH-500
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AIME 2023
70%
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AIME 2025
71%
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HMMT Feb 2023
66%
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HMMT Feb 2024
68%
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HMMT Feb 2025
67%
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BRUMO 2025
69%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, DeepSeek V3 or Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash is ahead overall, 45 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 24.9% and 67%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3 or Gemini 3 Flash?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 58.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3 or Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 70 versus 42. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, DeepSeek V3 or Gemini 3 Flash?

DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 69. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3 or Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 65.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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