DeepSeek-R1 vs Gemini 4 Carbon

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI) against Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind).

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Developed by Google DeepMind · Carbon-Aware Frontier Transformer on TPU v6e parameters

Sub-watt green computing, 62% energy reduction per million tokens, carbon-aware datagrid routing, and eco-tier batch execution discounts.

Metric DeepSeek-R1 Gemini 4 Carbon
SWE-bench Verified 49.2% 69.2%
MMLU-Pro 84% 84.6%
MATH-500 97.3% 91.4%
Context Window 128,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.55 $0.80
Output Pricing (per 1M) $2.19 $2.40