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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-5 Mini

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

Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 19, 2026

PropertyGemini 3 FlashGPT-5 Mini
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateDec 2025Aug 2025
Context Window1.0M400K
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.500$0.250
Output $/1M$3.00$2.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question AnsweringSupportedSupported
Image TaggingSupportedSupported
Multi-Label ClassificationSupportedSupported
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision LanguageSupportedSupported
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation VisionSupportedSupported
LLMs with Vision CapabilitiesSupportedSupported
Multimodal VisionSupportedSupported
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
65.7%
Not evaluated
Avg cost / sample$0.0024–
Avg speed / sample5.83s–
By task
Object Detection
38.6%
$0.0031
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Counting
67.6%
$0.0012
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Identification
93.8%
$0.0009
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OCR (low)
63.9%
$0.0024
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by category
Single value
63.9%
Transcription
90.5%
Structured JSON
80.2%
Text localization
7.6%
OCR (high)
73.1%
$0.013
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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-5 Mini: 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 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.