Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) 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 72.4% cheaper ($35.81/mo vs $129.75/mo), while Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads in token generation speed (220 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) (DeepSeek API) Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Google Gemini API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.270 $0.075 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.070 $0.020 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $1.10 $0.30 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1282 LMSYS Elo 1210 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $129.75 / mo $35.81 / mo Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (-72.4%)
Context Window 64,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Speed (Throughput) 60 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 High-intelligence general tasks & translation where prompt caching saves 75%+ Mass web scraping enrichment, classification at millions of rows per day Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek-V3 (Chat) → Try Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite → Open Full Simulator