Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-6 Luna
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Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-6 Luna on Vision Evals
Gemini 3 Flash scores higher on 4 of the six Vision Evals tasks.
The widest gap is Data Extraction, where Gemini 3 Flash leads 96.9% to 68.0%.
Overall, Gemini 3 Flash averages 74.9% (#17 of 57) against 68.6% (#32 of 57) for GPT-6 Luna.
GPT-6 Luna is cheaper ($0.0004 vs $0.0021 per sample), while Gemini 3 Flash is faster (4.1s vs 11.3s per sample).
Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-6 Luna Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.500 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $3.00 | $0.500 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| 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% | 68.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0021 | $0.0004 |
| Avg speed / sample | 4.10s | 11.27s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 38.6% | 56.8% ±1.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 54.8 to 58.5 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 64.1% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 63.6 to 64.5 |
| Counting (low) | 67.6% | 65.8% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 64.9 to 67.6 |
| Counting (high) | – | 64.4% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.2 to 66.2 |
| Identification (low) | 93.8% | 81.3% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 81.3 |
| Identification (high) | – | 80.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 81.3 |
| OCR (low) | 87.6% | 87.9% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.2 to 88.3 |
| OCR (high) | – | 88.5% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.9 to 89.2 |
| Data Extraction (low) | 96.9% | 68.0% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.0 to 71.1 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 66.7% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 66.0 to 67.0 |
| Reasoning (low) | 64.9% | 52.1% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 49.7 to 53.6 |
| Reasoning (high) | 74.2% | 60.7% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 58.9 to 62.3 |
Gemini 3 Flash vs GPT-6 Luna: Overview
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-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 model family, sitting below GPT-6 Sol and the larger GPT-6 Astra model that opened the generation. It is a proprietary multimodal transformer that accepts text and image input and returns text, and it exposes an adjustable reasoning effort setting so the same model can run in a low-latency mode or spend additional inference compute on harder problems. OpenAI positions it for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as conversational assistants, classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines, while noting that at higher reasoning effort it handles software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously required a Sol-tier model.
The model supports a context window of roughly 1,050,000 input tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, which allows long documents, extended agent traces, and large code repositories to be processed in a single request. OpenAI describes the GPT-6 generation as improving factual reliability and adopting a more concise communication style relative to the GPT-5.6 series, and attributes the efficiency of the Sol and Luna tiers to gains in caching and inference rather than to reduced capability. Architecture details, parameter counts, and training data are not published.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 3 Flash performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the six vision tasks and averages 74.9% (#17 of 57) against 68.6% (#32 of 57) for GPT-6 Luna. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
Yes. On the Vision Evals Data Extraction benchmark at low effort, Gemini 3 Flash leads with 96.9% against 68.0%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
GPT-6 Luna is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0004 per sample against $0.0021. Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output; GPT-6 Luna is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
Gemini 3 Flash is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 4.1s per inference against 11.3s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.