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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs GPT-5 Mini

Gemini 3.1 Pro: 76.8% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#16 of 68 models). We have not run GPT-5 Mini through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs GPT-5 Mini Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.1 ProGPT-5 Mini
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateFeb 2026Aug 2025
Context Window1.0M400K
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00$0.250
Output $/1M$12.00$2.00
Vision Tasks
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
76.8%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.010–
Avg speed / sample8.44s–
By task
Object Detection
67.4%
$0.010
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Counting
71.6%
$0.0071
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Identification
100.0%
$0.0070
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OCR (low)
72.6%
$0.010
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by category
Single value
67.8%
Transcription
88.5%
Structured JSON
82.0%
Text localization
52.0%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.026
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by category
Single value
68.7%
Transcription
90.8%
Structured JSON
83.9%
Text localization
47.1%
Reasoning (low)
72.2%
$0.012
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Reasoning (high)
74.8%
$0.021
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Gemini 3.1 Pro vs GPT-5 Mini: Overview

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Gemini 3.1 Pro is a proprietary multimodal model from Google’s Gemini 3 series, released in early 2026 and designed for advanced reasoning across large multimodal datasets. It accepts text, images, audio, video, and documents, supporting up to a 1-million-token input context with up to 64k output tokens. Compared with Gemini 3 Pro, it improves long-context synthesis and multi-step reasoning, enabling more reliable analysis of large documents, datasets, and software codebases.

The model also advances visual understanding and grounding, allowing it to interpret UI screenshots, diagrams, and real-world scenes while referencing specific regions within images or video. These capabilities make Gemini 3.1 Pro well suited for multimodal workflows involving document processing, interface analysis, robotics research, and complex visual reasoning.

GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is a mid-tier variant of the GPT-5 family that balances cost, speed, and capability. It is multimodal, supporting both text and image inputs, and offers a substantial input context window of ~400,000 tokens with output lengths up to ~128,000 tokens. While less powerful than the full GPT-5, it inherits its safety tuning, instruction-following improvements, and multimodal reasoning, making it a practical choice for developers who need large context handling without the expense of premium models.

GPT-5 Mini is optimized for affordability while retaining strong reasoning performance. Benchmarks show it outperforming earlier models such as GPT-4o on many multimodal and medical VQA tasks, though it lags behind GPT-5 on the most complex problems. Ideal use cases include prototyping, scalable content generation, document analysis, and mid-range reasoning tasks where efficiency and context capacity matter more than top-tier accuracy.