DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 4 Argon
DeepSeek V4 Pro 
Gemini 4 Argon Verdict
- Gemini 4 Argon (high) leads on quality: 70.0 vs 62.8.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) is stronger in instruction following, long context.
- Gemini 4 Argon (high) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, knowledge, maths, reasoning, human preference.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) is 2.0× cheaper ($1.98 vs $4.00 per 1M blended).
| Metric | DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) | Gemini 4 Argon (high) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 62.8 | 70.0 |
| Agents & tools score | 63.7 | 67.5 |
| Coding score | 58.3 | 72.1 |
| Composite score | 70.3 | 89.2 |
| Instruction following score | 74.3 | – |
| Knowledge score | 59.8 | 75.7 |
| Long context score | 65.4 | 65.0 |
| Maths score | 56.3 | 71.9 |
| Reasoning score | 65.2 | 82.0 |
| Human preference score | – | 73.2 |
| Blended price $/M | $1.98 | $4.00 |
| Output speed | 93 tok/s | – |
| Time to first answer | 48.9 s | – |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.7% | – |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 64.6% | – |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 26.8% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.6% | – |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | 77.6% | – |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.9% | – |
| SciCode | 51.0% | 61.8% |
| WeirdML | 66.2% | – |
| ProofBench | 16.0% | – |
| LMArena Text | – | 1525 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | – | 1551 |
| LMArena Coding | – | 1562 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1678 |
| LMArena Agent | – | 9.3 |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 36 | 52.6 |
| IFBench | 76.5% | – |
| AA-LCR | 80.3% | 79.7% |
| AA-Omniscience | 0.8 | 42.4 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 46.2% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 92.8% | – |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 41.0% | 57.1% |
| SciCode (AA) | 51.0% | 61.8% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 96.2% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | 87.5% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.3% | – |
| IOI | 51.6% | 100.0% |
| LegalBench | 82.4% | 88.3% |
| CorpFin | 65.4% | – |
| TaxEval | 73.1% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 54.7% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 96.4% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.4% | – |
| Vals Index | 47.6 | 68.9 |
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% | – |
| HMMT February 2026 | 93.9% | – |
| MathArena Apex | 28.1% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 90.0% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | – |
| CritPt | 18.0% | 27.1% |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 47.5% | 56.3% |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | 39.6% | – |
| ITBench SRE (AA) | 38.3% | – |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | 18.8% | – |
| APEX-Agents (AA) | 24.3% | – |
| BioMysteryBench | – | 76.3% |
| CaseLaw v2 | 59.4% | – |
| Code Migration | 41.5% | 68.2% |
| CUA-bench | – | 4.8% |
| CyberBench | 72.9% | 77.9% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | 52.8% | 75.2% |
| Finance Agent v2 | 50.4% | 65.4% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | 7.5% | 19.6% |
| Legal Research Bench | 40.9% | 54.8% |
| MedCode | 42.5% | 58.8% |
| MedScribe | 80.2% | 87.4% |
| MysteryMechanism | – | 45.5% |
| ProgramBench | 0.0% | 2.5% |
| Public Benefits Bench | 62.9% | 69.8% |
| SAGE | – | 53.6% |
| SkillsBench | 53.8% | – |
| SREBench | – | 44.3% |
| Tax Agent Bench | 58.7% | 76.2% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | 14.1% | 57.6% |
| Terminal-Bench Science | 0.0% | 44.3% |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | 17.5% | – |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 82.3% | 91.9% |
| LMArena Maths | – | 1528 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | – | 1519 |
| LMArena Instruction Following | – | 1529 |
| LMArena Multi-turn | – | 1553 |
| LMArena Longer Queries | – | 1545 |
| Chess Puzzles | 47.0% | – |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 43.0% | – |
| LMCA | 41.2% | – |
| DTBench | 90.7% | – |
| ALE-Bench | 1403.2 | – |
| FrontierSWE | – | 55.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | 14.7% | 57.1% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | 78.7% | – |
| AutomationBench | 56.7% | 77.5% |
| GDP.pdf | 11.4% | 21.8% |
| MLCR | 17.8% | – |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym | 49.6% | – |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | 49.1% | 49.9% |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | 5.9% | 84.9% |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | 1257 | 1488 |
| AA Openness Index | 44.4 | – |
Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 4 Argon: questions
- Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Gemini 4 Argon?
- Gemini 4 Argon (high) leads on quality: 70.0 vs 62.8. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Gemini 4 Argon (high) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Gemini 4 Argon for coding?
- Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in coding (72 vs 58 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Gemini 4 Argon for agentic tasks?
- Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in agentic tasks (68 vs 64 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Gemini 4 Argon?
- DeepSeek V4 Pro is cheaper: $1.98 against $4.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Both accept 1M tokens of context.