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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4.1 mini

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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4.1 mini Comparison Table

Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 16, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4.1 mini
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2025Apr 2025
Context Window1.0M1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.300$0.400
Output $/1M$2.50$1.60
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4.1 mini: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s production-ready, efficiency-focused model in the Gemini 2.5 family. It is multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and audio as inputs, with text as the primary output format. The model supports 1 million input tokens and up to 65K output tokens, enabling it to process very large contexts such as books, long video transcripts, or extensive datasets. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.

Designed as a price-performance leader, Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed and reasoning power, making it suitable for everyday enterprise and developer use cases without the higher latency and cost of Pro models. It supports advanced workflows like function calling, code execution, search grounding, URL context ingestion, and structured outputs. While efficient and scalable, output length is still limited compared to its input capacity, and multimodal outputs (e.g. image or audio generation) remain restricted to specialized or preview variants.

GPT-4.1 mini

GPT-4.1 mini, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a smaller, faster, and cheaper variant of GPT-4.1 designed for high-throughput and cost-sensitive applications. It is multimodal, handling both text and images, and inherits the full model’s strengths in coding, structured outputs, and long-context reasoning. With support for up to 1 million tokens, it enables reliable processing of extended documents, multi-file codebases, and lengthy conversations while keeping latency low.

GPT-4.1 mini offers an efficient alternative to GPT-4.1 and replaced GPT-4o mini as the default ChatGPT model in May 2025. Despite being smaller, it matches or outperforms GPT-4o on several benchmarks, particularly for instruction following and real-world coding tasks. Ideal use cases include large-scale conversational systems, affordable developer tools, document analysis, and interactive assistants where speed and cost are critical.