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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4.1 nano

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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4.1 nano Comparison Table

Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 7, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4.1 nano
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2025Apr 2025
Context Window1.0M1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.300$0.100
Output $/1M$2.50$0.400
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 nano: 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 nano

GPT-4.1 nano, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is the smallest and most cost-efficient member of the GPT-4.1 family. It is multimodal, supporting both text and image inputs, and retains the family’s extended 1 million-token context window—allowing it to handle large documents or codebases despite its lightweight design. Its training knowledge extends to June 2024.

GPT-4.1 nano prioritizes speed and affordability over raw reasoning power. While less capable than GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini, it is well-suited for high-volume or latency-sensitive workloads such as classification, autocomplete, content moderation, and lightweight assistants. This makes it an attractive option for developers seeking scalable deployment where efficiency is more critical than deep reasoning.