DeepSeek V3 Base and Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B shipped 59 days before DeepSeek V3 Base, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek V3 Base is open weight, while Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek V3 Base and Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.