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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-4o

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4o in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 6.4% for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.128.6
Released2026-07-212024-05-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$10
Results tracked4672

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
WeirdML56.1%25.1%
LMArena Coding14911297
SWE-bench Verified—31%
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21.6%
Aider Polyglot—45.3%
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
GSO—0%
BigCodeBench Instruct—51.1%
LiveBench Coding—51.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.1%
CadEval—26%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDPval—9.9%
TheAgentCompany—8.6%
Cybench—12.5%
BALROG—32.3%
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search—1006
METR Time Horizons—40.8%

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
ARC-AGI-260.4%0%
ARC-AGI-191.2%4.5%
CritPt10.6%0%
Chess Puzzles43%13%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851281
DTBench95.5%64.5%
LMCA44.9%16.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25128.97
SimpleBench—17.8%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—55.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
ForecastBench—57.7
LiveBench—55.3%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%0.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%6.4%
LMArena Math15051285
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—29.3%
LiveBench Math—49.5%
MATH Level 5—53.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
GPQA Diamond94.1%49.2%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%26%
LMArena Expert14881250
Humanity's Last Exam—2.7%
MMLU-Pro—71.3%
Confabulations—15.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.6%
GPQA (HELM)—52%
MMLU—88.1%

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Vision12981137
Video-MME—71.9%
GeoBench—71%
VPCT—40%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—
ScienceQA—88.5%

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Non-English14691283
LMArena Chinese15311277
LMArena French15041304
LMArena German14781282
LMArena Japanese14761257
LMArena Korean14311234
LMArena Russian14871286
LMArena Spanish14751292

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Instruction Following14661278
LiveBench Instruction Following—68.6%
IFEval—81.7%

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Longer Query14741289
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o
LMArena Text14791300
LMArena Creative Writing14651292
LMArena Multi-Turn14811302
Short-Story Creative Writing—81.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
WildBench—82.8%
LiveBench Language—47.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than GPT-4o?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or GPT-4o?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; GPT-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or GPT-4o better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-4o share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o has 72.

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