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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4.1

Gemini 3 Flash: 65.7% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#29 of 65 models). GPT-4.1 is deprecated and was not run through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.

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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4.1 Comparison Table

Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 5, 2026

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGPT-4.1
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025Apr 2025
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$2.00
Output $/1M$3.00$8.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoSupported
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoSupported
OCRDemoSupported
Visual Question AnsweringDemoSupported
Both support 5 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
65.7%
Deprecated
Avg cost / sample$0.0024–
Avg speed / sample5.83s–
By task
Object Detection
38.6%
$0.0031
–
Counting
67.6%
$0.0012
–
Identification
93.8%
$0.0009
–
OCR (low)
63.9%
$0.0024
–
by category
Single value
63.9%
Transcription
90.5%
Structured JSON
80.2%
Text localization
7.6%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.013
–
by category
Single value
69.1%
Transcription
90.0%
Structured JSON
87.5%
Text localization
36.9%
Reasoning (low)
64.9%
$0.0020
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Reasoning (high)
74.2%
$0.0040
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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4.1: Overview

Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary multimodal large language model developed by Google through Google DeepMind, designed to deliver fast, cost-efficient reasoning across real-time products and developer workflows. Released in December 2025, it is the Flash-tier variant of the Gemini 3 family, balancing low latency with reasoning quality approaching Pro models.

The model supports text, images, audio, and video, with an exceptionally large context window of roughly one million input tokens and outputs up to ~65k tokens. It emphasizes rapid responses for coding, summarization, analysis, and agentic tasks, and exposes configurable “thinking levels” via API to trade speed for deeper reasoning. Today, Gemini 3 Flash positions itself as a high-throughput, production-ready model, serving as the default in the Gemini app and Google Search’s AI Mode, optimized for scalable, interactive AI applications.

GPT-4.1

GPT-4.1, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a multimodal large language model that advances the GPT-4 series with major improvements in coding, reasoning, and instruction following. It accepts both text and images, supports tool calling and structured outputs, and features an expanded context window of up to ~1 million tokens—enabling it to process very large documents, multi-file codebases, or long conversations in a single prompt. Its knowledge is current through June 2024.

The GPT-4.1 family includes standard, mini, and nano variants, offering trade-offs between performance, cost, and latency. While parameter counts remain undisclosed, the series improves efficiency and responsiveness compared to GPT-4, making it suitable for both enterprise-scale tasks and cost-sensitive applications. Common use cases include software development, technical research, knowledge management, multimodal analysis, and high-context enterprise assistants.