DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
13 K
mit · commercial OK
google · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$2.50
AA index
15.5
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus Gemini 2.5 Flash
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 684.5 B n/a — API-only
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 163,840 1,048,576
Licence mit Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 13,067 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 272 K n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2025-09-22 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.27 $0.30
API output price / 1M tokens $1.00 $2.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.27 $2.80
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.03
AA Intelligence Index 14.8 15.5
AA Coding Index 43.5 —
AA Agentic Index 6.8 —
Max output tokens 147,456 65,535
API providers 2 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus $1.27
Gemini 2.5 Flash $2.80

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is 2.2× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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