DeepSeek vs Gemini

Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek and Gemini: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	DeepSeek Frontier AI models with world-class reasoning — free to chat, open to build on Visit	Gemini Google's multimodal AI assistant with deep Search and Workspace integration Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Chat assistants
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 19.99/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	DeepSeek	Google
Founded	2023	2023
Headquarters	Hangzhou, China	US
Key strengths	·World-class reasoning performance with DeepSeek-R1 ·Open-source models available for self-hosting and fine-tuning ·Low-cost API access with OpenAI-compatible endpoints ·Strong coding capabilities via DeepSeek-Coder series	·Native Google Search grounding ·2M token context window ·Free tier with Deep Research ·Multimodal image, video, audio input