Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite from Google and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash from DeepSeek, side by side. Every figure comes from the model registry. No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Side-by-side comparison of Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Attribute	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Provider	Google	DeepSeek
Model id	google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite	deepseek/deepseek-flash
Status	Available via Safeguard	Available via Safeguard
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30	$0.30
Output / 1M tokens	$2.50	$1.20
Price notes	Paid tier, same input price for text, image, video and audio, output includes thinking tokens.	Peak-hour list price (cache miss). Off-peak is half: $0.15 in / $0.60 out. Peak hours 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC Mon-Fri excluding Chinese public holidays. Cache-hit input $0.006 peak.
Context	1.05M	1M
Parameters	Not published	Not published
Max output	65,536 tokens	384,000 tokens
Modality	Text and image	Text and image
Weights	Closed	Open
Zero data retention	Not offered	Not stated
Prompts go to	Google (Gemini Developer API)	DeepSeek (People's Republic of China)
Retention	Paid tier: prompts and responses not used to improve Google products, but logged for a limited period for abuse monitoring, free tier content may be used to improve products	Privacy policy: personal data stored in the PRC and kept as long as necessary to provide the service, may be used to train models, with a right to opt out. No API-specific retention period or ZDR offering published
Region	No region guarantee, data may be stored transiently or cached in any country where Google operates. Google points ZDR and enterprise processing needs to Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)	China (PRC)
Price checked	2026-10-08	2026-10-08

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