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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5

Compare Gemini 3 Flash and GPT-5 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-5 Comparison Table

Evals updated July 24, 2026Pricing updated July 27, 2026

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGPT-5
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025Aug 2025
Context Window1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$1.25
Output $/1M$3.00$10.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks
Overall
77.1%
Not evaluated
Object Detection
38.6%
Counting
67.6%
Identification
93.8%
OCR
87.6%
Data Extraction
96.9%
Reasoning
78.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0021
Avg speed / sample4.3s

Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5: 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-5

GPT-5, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a multimodal large language model that advances beyond the GPT-4 family with a new “unified system” architecture. This design allows the model to dynamically choose between fast responses and extended reasoning depending on task complexity. It supports text, code, and images, alongside stronger tool use and agentic workflows, making it more adaptable for real-world problem solving. While its exact context window size is not disclosed, GPT-5 is optimized for long-horizon reasoning and multi-step tool chaining, indicating substantially expanded capacity over its predecessors.

The release introduced specialized variants: GPT-5 Pro, offering extended reasoning for complex workflows, and GPT-5 Codex, optimized for advanced coding tasks such as large-scale refactoring and code review. GPT-5 shows benchmark gains in coding, biomedical reasoning, multimodal analysis, and scientific tasks. Developers also gain new controls, such as verbosity and personalization parameters, for greater steerability. With these improvements, GPT-5 positions itself as OpenAI’s most capable and versatile model, suited for enterprise automation, research, healthcare, and sophisticated coding environments.