DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) vs Gemini 4 Argon (High)

Which is better for the money: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) by DeepSeek or Gemini 4 Argon (High) by Google? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 20.40
Total cost: $451

GoogleGemini 4 Argon (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 52.60
Total cost: $2407

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Gemini 4 Argon (High) scores 32.2 points higher (52.6 vs 20.4) but costs 5.3× as much to run the benchmark ($2407 vs $451; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Gemini 4 Argon (High) when you need intelligence above 20.4, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) when 20.4 is enough.

Metric	DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)	Gemini 4 Argon (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	20.4	52.6	+157.8% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 2.6× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$450.76	$2,407.24	+434.0% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 5.3× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	6.84s	63.20s	+824.0% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 824.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.32 / $3.96	$2.00 / $10.0
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Gemini 4 Argon (High) vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning): 157.8% more intelligence, 434.0% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 824.0% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Medium) scores 47.80 for $361.
Gemini 4 Argon (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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