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| Attribute | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | o4 Mini Deep Researcho4-mini-deep-research | DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek-v4.1-flash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.75 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Output | $3.75 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M | $1.20 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.75 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.75 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.75 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | OpenAI | DeepSeek | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | o4-mini-deep-research is a faster, lower-cost version of OpenAI's deep-research model, designed for complex, multi-step investigations. It automatically relies on web_search for information gathering, which always adds extra usage cost. | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a cost-efficient sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model in DeepSeek's V4.1 family, optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. Despite its efficiency-focused positioning, DeepSeek reports that it surpasses the previous V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and overall task completion time. The model is particularly strong at long-horizon, multi-step execution, making it well suited for coding agents, complex problem solving, and autonomous workflows that must reliably carry tasks through to completion. |