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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4o

Compare Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-4o side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Object Detection, Classification, Open Prompt, OCR, and Image Captioning.

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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4o Comparison Table

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

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGPT-4o
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025May 2024
Context Window1.0M128K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$2.50
Output $/1M$3.00$10.00
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
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
74.9%
Deprecated
Avg cost / sample$0.0021
Avg speed / sample4.10s
By task
Object Detection
38.6%
$0.0031
Counting
67.6%
$0.0012
Identification
93.8%
$0.0009
OCR
87.6%
$0.0024
Data Extraction
96.9%
$0.0008
Reasoning (low)
64.9%
$0.0020
Reasoning (high)
74.2%
$0.0040

Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-4o: 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-4o

GPT-4o (“omni”), released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal flagship model designed to unify text, image, and audio processing in a single system. Unlike earlier GPT-4 variants, GPT-4o supports real-time speech-to-speech interaction, enabling natural voice conversations alongside text and image reasoning. It features a context window of ~128,000 tokens for text input, with smaller output limits (commonly ~16K tokens), and has a knowledge cutoff of October 2023.

The model is optimized for efficiency and multilingual accessibility, supporting over 50 languages and covering ~97% of the world’s speakers. GPT-4o offers a cost-effective balance of speed and capability. It powers ChatGPT across free and paid tiers, making it widely accessible for applications in conversational AI, real-time translation, multimodal assistants, and global-scale communication tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

GPT-4o has been deprecated by its provider and can no longer be run, so it is not part of Roboflow's current Vision Evals. This page compares the models on specs, licensing, and pricing instead.

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