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Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Gemini 3.1 Pro
google/gemini-3.1-pro
Provider
Deepseek
Google
Family
DeepSeek
Gemini 3
Modality
text
text
Context window
1,048,576 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
32,768 tok
65,536 tok
Released
2026-10-17
2026-05-22
License
Open-weight
Proprietary
Input price
$0.300 /1M
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$1.20 /1M
$12.00 /1M
Cache read
—
$0.200 /1M
Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
yes
Prompt caching
—
yes
Batch API
—
—
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Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
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We introduce DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 552B backbone parameters and support for contexts of up to one million tokens. The model natively processes images and text, and generates text autoregressively.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows
Gemini 3.1 Pro
google/gemini-3.1-pro
Full spec →

Google's most intelligent Gemini model with improved reasoning, a medium thinking level, and a 1M token context window.

Strengths
  • 2M-token context
  • Native video + audio input
  • Cheapest long-context reasoning
Use cases
Video understandingVery long-document RAGCodebase-scale reasoning

Benchmarks

Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Long-Context
—
94.2
MMLU
—
89.6

Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Deepseek-V4.1-Flash-1017
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Gemini 3.1 Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-3.1-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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