Models / Compare /DeepSeek V3.2 vs Gemma 4 31B
Head to head
DeepSeek V3.2 vs Gemma 4 31B
Compared on live catalog data — pricing synced daily, benchmark scores with provenance.
The short version
- Gemma 4 31B is cheaper to run hosted: $0.34/M output vs $0.40/M for DeepSeek V3.2 (1.2× difference at the cheapest tracked provider).
- Gemma 4 31B takes 262K tokens of context vs 164K for DeepSeek V3.2.
- Gemma 4 31B scores 1498.1274 on Arena Coding vs 1469.5929 for DeepSeek V3.2.
- Gemma 4 31B scores 1420.5646 on Arena Creative Writing vs 1400.3738 for DeepSeek V3.2.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | DeepSeek | |
| Parameters | 685B / 37B | 32.7B |
| 164K | 262K | |
| Weights | OPEN | OPEN |
| License | MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Modality | text->text | text+image+video->text |
| Released | Dec 1, 2025 | Mar 11, 2026 |
| 432.1 GBest | 20.6 GBest | |
| Cheapest hosted | $0.27 / $0.40 per 1M (Novita AI) | $0.10 / $0.34 per 1M (OpenRouter) |
| Tracked providers | 19 | 22 |
DeepSeek V3.2 — our take
DeepSeek V3.2 is a large downloadable text model with a permissive MIT licence and a 163,840-token request limit. Only 37 billion of its 685.4 billion total parameters are active per token, keeping inference costs down while measured coding performance is the clear peak in its benchmark profile.
full breakdown →Gemma 4 31B — our take
Gemma 4 is a 32.7-billion-parameter text, image and video model from Google with a permissive Apache licence. It scores consistently across six Arena categories, with coding as its relative standout, and is available from ten hosts with a wide spread in price and speed.
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