Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark

DeepSeek: R1 vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.

Input delta: $0.60Output delta: $2.10Monthly delta: $198

Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.

Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.

MetricDeepSeek: R1Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Developerdeepseekgoogle
Context Window64,0001,048,576
Max Output Tokens16,00065,535
Input Cost / 1M Tokens$0.7000$0.1000
Output Cost / 1M Tokens$2.50$0.4000
Projected Monthly Cost$234$36
Vision❌ No✅ Yes
Tool Calling✅ Yes✅ Yes
Structured Output❌ No✅ Yes
Reasoning✅ Yes✅ Yes
Web Search❌ No❌ No
Audio Price / 1MN/A$0.3000
TokenizerDeepSeekGemini
MMLU Score84.975.9
GPQA81.362.5

Price History

DeepSeek: R1 Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 17
$0.7000$1.60$2.50Mar 7Mar 10Mar 12Mar 15Mar 17

Current Input / 1M

$0.7000

Current Output / 1M

$2.50

Price History

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Pricing Trend

Input / 1M tokens0.0%Output / 1M tokens0.0%
Mar 7Mar 17
$0.1000$0.2500$0.4000Mar 7Mar 10Mar 12Mar 15Mar 17

Current Input / 1M

$0.1000

Current Output / 1M

$0.4000

Cost Calculator

Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.

01.0B
0500M

DeepSeek: R1

$234

per month

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite

$36

per month

Lower cost

Live Recommendation

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite saves $198/mo at this workload
Open DeepSeek: R1 model pageOpen Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite model page

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