Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 54.2 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 53 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.2

Rank #32 Confirmed

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 53 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5.5 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-5.5 leads 50.7 to 24.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GBAEval: 6.7% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 53.2% for GPT-5.5.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper at $1.50 / $9 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1.05M.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and GPT-5.5 specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.263.4
Released2026-05-192026-04-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$5
Output $ / M tokens$9$30
Results tracked5471

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.4 (#49), GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
SWE-bench Verified79.3%80.6%
DeepSWE37.4%67%
LMArena WebDev14991513
SciCode53.1%56.1%
WeirdML62.6%84.9%
LMArena Coding14921494
ALE-Bench911.021,943
FrontierCode—43%
GSO—40.2%
MirrorCode—10%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.7 (#114), GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
APEX-Agents27.5%55.1%
GBAEval6.7%53.2%
GDP.pdf14%26%
Vending-Bench 25,3967,524
Terminal-Bench—84.7%
OSWorld 2.0—13%
Remote Labor Index—6.3%
τ²-bench Banking—44.6%
DeepResearch Bench—54%
PostTrainBench—27.2%
ExploitBench—47.4%
LMArena Search—1242

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.8 (#18), GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
ARC-AGI-272.1%85%
SimpleBench76.7%69%
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%96.2%
ARC-AGI-192.5%95%
CritPt13.1%27.1%
Chess Puzzles50%54%
EBR-Bench4.8%34.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14881489
Mystery Game Puzzles32%56%
DTBench94.7%96%
LMCA47.1%54.3%
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%88.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.46159.1
ForecastBench5960.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark—88.8%
EnigmaEval25.4%—
Bench to the Future 3—0.14

Math GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.7 (#36), GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11)

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#11), GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
GPQA Diamond92.8%94%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%63%
LMArena Expert14951508
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%

Multimodal GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#15), GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
LMArena Vision13101297
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%36.2%
LMArena Document14631486
Furniture Assembly—44.2%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.0 (#13), GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
LMArena Non-English14761467
LMArena Chinese15261533
LMArena French14901486
LMArena German14921480
LMArena Japanese14861498
LMArena Korean14511460
LMArena Russian14931473
LMArena Spanish14801468

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.0 (#30), GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
LMArena Instruction Following14671479

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.4 (#38), GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
LMArena Longer Query14821484
CL-bench Life—22.2%

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#47), GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
LMArena Text14821472
LMArena Creative Writing14701455
EQ-Bench 410871315
LMArena Multi-Turn14811476
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1844

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 54.2 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or GPT-5.5?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or GPT-5.5 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 49.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and GPT-5.5 share?

53 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 has 71.

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