DeepSeek-V3 vs Gemini 4 Carbon

A direct, empirical evaluation of DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-AI) against Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind).

DeepSeek-V3

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Cost-effective high-throughput general reasoning and bilingual generation.

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-V3 Gemini 4 Carbon
SWE-bench Verified 49.2% 69.2%
MMLU-Pro 75.9% 84.6%
MATH-500 90.2% 91.4%
Context Window 128,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $0.14 $0.80
Output Pricing (per 1M) $0.28 $2.40