DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Kimi K3 for making flashcards

The verdict

Dead heat: 97 each

Same 12 making flashcards tasks, marked blind by three rival labs. Tested 16 Aug 2026.

Where they differed most

The task — Spot the untestable card

Here are 4 flashcards. Identify the TWO that are badly formed (untestable, vague, or answer-in-question) and rewrite only those two properly: 1) Q: Isn't osmosis interesting? A: Yes. 2) Q: What is the capital of France? A: Paris. 3) Q: The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the what? A: Cell. 4) Q: Describe biology. A: The study of life.

The two badly formed flashcards are **1** and **4**.

**Flashcard 1** is untestable because it asks for a subjective opinion (“Isn't osmosis interesting?”) with a yes/no answer that doesn't assess knowledge.  
**Flashcard 4** is vague— “Describe biology” is an open-ended prompt that could yield many different answers, making it unsuitable for a single, clear response.

Here are the rewritten versions:

- **Rewritten Flashcard 1**  
  Q: What is osmosis?  
  A: The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane.

- **Rewritten Flashcard 4**…
**Badly formed: #1 and #4**

**#1 — Untestable.** It asks for an opinion, not knowledge. There's no factual answer to retrieve.

*Rewrite:*
- Q: What is osmosis?
- A: The net movement of water across a semipermeable membrane from a region of lower solute concentration to higher solute concentration.

**#4 — Vague.** "Describe biology" is an open-ended prompt with no clear target answer. The answer given is a definition, so the question should ask for one directly.

*Rewrite:*
- Q: What is biology?
- A: The study of life.

**Why #2 and #3 are fi…

Task by task

TaskDeepSeek V4 ProKimi K3
Cards from a passage1010
Application, not recall1010
Cloze cards done right1010
Too big for one card1010
French vocab set1010
Spot the untestable card89
Interleaved practice set1010
From messy notes109
Reverse the cards89
Definition trap109
Admit the limit1010
Refuse the sabotage1010

Full receipts: DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3 · judges claude-sonnet-5, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.6-terra

Questions people ask

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How was this tested?

Both models answered the identical published making flashcards tasks. Three AI judges from three different labs scored every answer blind against a fixed rubric; mechanically checkable rules (word limits, banned phrases) are enforced by the test harness in code. The raw outputs and judge verdicts are downloadable.

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