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Gemini 4 Argon vs DeepSeek V4 Pro

Gemini 4 Argon is better at reasoning, structured data, long documents; DeepSeek V4 Pro is better at quick answers, writing, coding, maths, translation. DeepSeek V4 Pro is the cheaper of the two on output.

Measured quality by task

Quality is Nivana’s measured score for each kind of task, from weekly pairwise evals judged by models from several labs. Prices are live AI Gateway list prices per million tokens. Updated 2026-11-01. How this is measured.

Price and context

Which should you use?

Use the one that wins the kind of work you do most, unless the price gap outweighs the quality gap for easy requests. Or don’t choose: Nivana scores both, and the rest of the pool, on every request and sends it to whichever is best for that request.

Questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than DeepSeek V4 Pro?

On Nivana’s weekly evals Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on 3 of 8 task types (reasoning, structured data, long documents) and DeepSeek V4 Pro on 5 (quick answers, writing, coding, maths, translation). Neither is better at everything.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 4 Argon or DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 83/100 against 82/100 for Gemini 4 Argon on Nivana’s coding evals.

Which is better for writing, Gemini 4 Argon or DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 88/100 against 82/100 for Gemini 4 Argon on Nivana’s writing evals.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Pro: $1.98 per million output tokens against $10 for Gemini 4 Argon, about 5.1× less. A typical chat answer costs about $0.0024 on DeepSeek V4 Pro and $0.010 on Gemini 4 Argon.