Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5.5 Pro

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash costs 79× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI

64.3

Rank #8 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 Pro in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 Pro leads 73.3 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 2.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 84.6% for GPT-5.5 Pro.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $180 for GPT-5.5 Pro.
  • GPT-5.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-5.5 Pro specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index39.364.3
Released2025-04-172026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$30
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$180
Results tracked5414

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
WeirdML41.9%—
LMArena Coding1424—
ALE-Bench661.88—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
Vending-Bench 2548.84—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), GPT-5.5 Pro: 73.3 (#10)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
ARC-AGI-22.5%84.6%
SimpleBench41.2%76.9%
ARC-AGI-133.3%96.5%
CritPt1.1%30.6%
DTBench76.5%96%
LMCA27.5%53.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03162.07
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval2.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1422—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-5.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), GPT-5.5 Pro: 84.0 (#10)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%100%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%52.4%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%39.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—87.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—78%
Omni-MATH38.5%—
LMArena Math1415—

Knowledge GPT-5.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), GPT-5.5 Pro: 64.1 (#19)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
GPQA Diamond—93.9%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—
LMArena Expert1426—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
LMArena Vision1253—
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
LMArena Non-English1409—
LMArena Chinese1450—
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1405—
LMArena Korean1385—
LMArena Russian1415—
LMArena Spanish1421—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
IFEval89.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1405—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—
LMArena Longer Query1419—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), GPT-5.5 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-5.5 Pro
LMArena Text1417—
LMArena Creative Writing1400—
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1137—
WildBench81.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1408—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than GPT-5.5 Pro?

GPT-5.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.3 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash costs 79× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-5.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 Pro lists at $30 and $180.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 Pro does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-5.5 Pro share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Pro has 14.

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