Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5.1

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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5.1: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s production-ready, efficiency-focused model in the Gemini 2.5 family. It is multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and audio as inputs, with text as the primary output format. The model supports 1 million input tokens and up to 65K output tokens, enabling it to process very large contexts such as books, long video transcripts, or extensive datasets. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.

Designed as a price-performance leader, Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed and reasoning power, making it suitable for everyday enterprise and developer use cases without the higher latency and cost of Pro models. It supports advanced workflows like function calling, code execution, search grounding, URL context ingestion, and structured outputs. While efficient and scalable, output length is still limited compared to its input capacity, and multimodal outputs (e.g. image or audio generation) remain restricted to specialized or preview variants.

GPT-5.1

GPT-5.1 is an OpenAI frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger general-purpose reasoning, clearer long-form responses, and improved instruction following. It introduces two variants—Instant and Thinking—that dynamically adjust computational depth. Instant focuses on fast, conversational replies, while Thinking provides deeper, more thorough reasoning for complex tasks. In ChatGPT, GPT-5.1 also powers an Auto mode that switches between these variants automatically based on task difficulty.

The model supports significantly expanded context windows: up to 16K/32K/128K tokens for Instant (depending on tier) and up to 196K tokens for Thinking on paid tiers. GPT-5.1 is also compatible with ChatGPT tools such as web search, file and image analysis, and multi-step workflows.

GPT-5.1 includes enhanced tone and style controls, allowing responses to be tailored using presets like Friendly, Professional, or Efficient, along with fine-grained adjustments for warmth, brevity, and emoji usage. Designed for broad applications in research assistance, coding, analysis, and conversational agents, GPT-5.1 serves as OpenAI’s primary full-capability successor to GPT-5 across ChatGPT and API integrations.

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5.1 Comparison Table

PropertyGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.1
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2025Nov 2025
Context Window1.0M196K
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.300$1.25
Output $/1M$2.50$10.00
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
ClassificationDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalspass/fail results · 67 prompts
Score key:≥75%40–74%<40%
Overall Score
55.22%
Avg Response Time24.91s
Median input tokensincl. image tokens294
Median output tokens171
Est. cost / taskon this benchmark$0.0005
Defect Detection
60%(9/15)
Document Understanding
88.9%(8/9)
Object Counting
0%(0/10)
Object Understanding
71.4%(10/14)
Spatial Understanding
52.6%(10/19)

Output tokens (incl. reasoning) and est. cost / task are measured on this benchmark from a single low-temperature run, and shown only for models whose run covered at least 90% of prompts. Methodology