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| Attribute | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewgemini-3.1-pro-preview |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $2.00 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M | $0.50 / 1M | $12.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $2.00 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $2.00 / 1M | $0.10 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 1.0M |
| 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 | DeepSeek | ||
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is the October 17, 2026 snapshot of DeepSeek’s cost-efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, built on its innovative Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. Featuring 552B total parameters with 8B activated for input and 16B for output, it combines efficient inference with native multimodal understanding through jointly trained text and visual representations. Optimized for coding, terminal and computer-use agents, and long-horizon workflows, the model introduces compressed KV caching that reduces cache memory usage to approximately one-quarter of the previous Flash generation. DeepSeek reports that it surpasses V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and task completion time, making it well suited for cost-efficient autonomous agents, complex software engineering, and long-context analysis. | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google's frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows. Built on the multimodal foundation of the Gemini 3 series, it combines high-precision reasoning across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window for large-scale tasks. The 3.1 update introduces measurable gains on SWE benchmarks and real-world coding environments, along with stronger autonomous execution in structured domains such as finance and spreadsheet-based workflows. Designed for advanced development and agentic systems, it improves long-horizon stability and tool orchestration while adding a new medium thinking level to better balance cost, speed, and performance. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is well suited for agentic coding, structured planning, multimodal analysis, financial modeling, spreadsheet automation, and high-context enterprise applications. |