Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-6 Sol

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Google

39.3

Rank #170 Confirmed

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

61.8

Rank #12 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and GPT-6 Sol in 7 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Sol leads 74.0 to 18.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 2.5% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 89.6% for GPT-6 Sol.
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for GPT-6 Sol.
  • GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-6 Sol specifications
Gemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index39.361.8
Released2025-04-172026-09-22
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.30$2
Output $ / M tokens$2.50$10
Results tracked5445

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220), GPT-6 Sol: 60.1 (#11)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Coding14241447
ALE-Bench661.882,462
DeepSWE—68.8%
FrontierCode—49.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)28.7%—
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
LMArena WebDev—1688
SciCode—57.6%
WeirdML41.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74), GPT-6 Sol: 37.2 (#36)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
Vending-Bench 2548.8414,428
Terminal-Bench17.1%—
APEX-Agents—54.3%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.2%—
TheAgentCompany41.1%—
BALROG33.5%—
GDP.pdf—26.4%

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286), GPT-6 Sol: 74.0 (#9)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
ARC-AGI-22.5%89.6%
ARC-AGI-133.3%95.5%
CritPt1.1%30.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14221418
DTBench76.5%97.3%
LMCA27.5%59.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.03162.72
SimpleBench41.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark56.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)—90.1%
EnigmaEval2.7%—
EBR-Bench—53.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles—56%
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98), GPT-6 Sol: 87.2 (#7)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.1%100%
LMArena Math14151402
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—90%
ProofBench—83%
Omni-MATH38.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168), GPT-6 Sol: 64.8 (#15)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.8%6.5%
LMArena Expert14261439
GPQA Diamond—94.3%
Humanity's Last Exam12.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—60.7%
MMLU-Pro63.9%—
Confabulations16.8%—
GPQA (HELM)39%—

Multimodal GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32), GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#10)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Vision12531245
GeoBench76%—
VPCT46.2%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—36.9%
Furniture Assembly—58.3%
SpatialViz-Bench36.9%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88), GPT-6 Sol: 50.5 (#118)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Non-English14091385
LMArena Chinese14501405
LMArena French14331410
LMArena German14181390
LMArena Japanese14051385
LMArena Korean13851341
LMArena Russian14151401
LMArena Spanish14211384

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54), GPT-6 Sol: 74.5 (#94)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following14051412
IFEval89.8%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17), GPT-6 Sol: 43.1 (#108)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query14191411
Fiction.LiveBench77.8%—

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157), GPT-6 Sol: 71.9 (#18)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashGPT-6 Sol
LMArena Text14171395
LMArena Creative Writing14001378
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11372125
LMArena Multi-Turn14081412
Short-Story Creative Writing76.5%—
WildBench81.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than GPT-6 Sol?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.8 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 2.5 Flash costs 4.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-6 Sol's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-6 Sol?

Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Sol lists at $2 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.1 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-6 Sol does, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-6 Sol share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Sol has 45.

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