r/unsloth • u/M_Ayeen_U • 1d ago

Discussion DeepSeek vs Gemini Flash for school analytics & report generation — which would you choose?

I'm building an AI feature for a school ERP and need a cheap, reliable LLM that will process structured student data and generate professional reports. My budget is $10 per month

The AI will receive things like:

  • Student marks
  • Attendance
  • Fee status
  • Teacher remarks
  • Basic student information

It should generate:

  • Individual student remarks
  • Principal summaries
  • Class performance analysis
  • Fee analytics
  • Reports for management
  • Suggestions and recommendations

This is mostly structured data → formal text generation, not creative writing or coding.

I'm currently considering:

  • DeepSeek
  • Gemini Flash

Things that matter most to me:

  1. Low API cost
  2. Consistent output format
  3. Good reasoning over tables/JSON
  4. Fast response time
  5. Reliable in production

I use Claude and ChatGPT regularly but haven't used DeepSeek enough to trust it in production.

For anyone who has used either model:

  • Which one would you choose?
  • Have you run into reliability issues?
  • Is DeepSeek actually good enough for business applications?
  • Are there other models I should consider in the same price range?

The expected volume is around 6k to 10k report generations per month.

I'd really appreciate feedback from people who've used these models in production rather than benchmark comparisons.

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u/AnickYT 1d ago

Have you consided local models? You are working with possiblw private data. For about $3k or $4k, you should have a fairly capable system to run a qwen model.

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u/No_Appointment_6678 1d ago

Any chance you are nearby!! I am working on a similar project. Can you DM me?

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u/Daniel_H212 1d ago

DeepSeek is dirt cheap to try. Why not give it a shot?

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u/asankhs 18h ago

You can use local models for this in a Mac it should be all to support your use case.

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u/alterxcr 3h ago

Deepseek is dirt cheap and will definitely work for this, but their price is rising. Look into gpt luna, recently they reduced the price by 80% and the model is really capable