Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 86.3% cheaper ($35.81/mo vs $260.77/mo), while Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads in token generation speed (220 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) (DeepSeek API) Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Google Gemini API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.550 $0.075 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.140 $0.020 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $2.19 $0.30 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1210 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $260.77 / mo $35.81 / mo Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (-86.3%)
Context Window 64,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Speed (Throughput) 50 tokens/sec 220 tokens/sec Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Batch API Discount -50% (DeepSeek API) -50% (Google Gemini API) DeepSeek API
Primary Workload Fit Budget-friendly chain-of-thought logic, financial verification, logic synthesis Mass web scraping enrichment, classification at millions of rows per day Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner) → Try Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite → Open Full Simulator