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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-4o mini

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o mini costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 10 categories and GPT-4o mini 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 8.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.2% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 6.9% for GPT-4o mini.
  • GPT-4o mini is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $3.75 for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index54.125.5
Released2026-07-212024-07-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$0.60
Results tracked4660

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
WeirdML56.1%11.8%
LMArena Coding14911290
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
Aider Polyglot—3.6%
LMArena WebDev1538—
SciCode52.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.1%
LiveBench Coding—43.1%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.4%
ALE-Bench715.52—
HumanEval+—83.5%
MBPP+—72.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
APEX-Agents46.9%—
BALROG—17.4%
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
ARC-AGI-260.4%0%
Chess Puzzles43%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851267
Mystery Game Puzzles30%12%
DTBench95.5%54.4%
LMCA44.9%10.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25126.56
SimpleBench—10.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
CritPt10.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning—32.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50%
LiveBench—41.3%
PIQA—88.7%

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%6.9%
LMArena Math15051267
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—28%
LiveBench Math—36.3%
MATH Level 5—52.6%
GSM8K—91.3%

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
GPQA Diamond94.1%37.7%
SimpleQA Verified66.2%8.3%
LMArena Expert14881235
MMLU-Pro—60.3%
Confabulations—37.2%
GPQA (HELM)—36.8%
BoolQ—88.7%
MMLU—81.8%

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
LMArena Vision12981066
Video-MME—64.8%
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—34%
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
LMArena Non-English14691266
LMArena Chinese15311265
LMArena French15041297
LMArena German14781272
LMArena Japanese14761216
LMArena Korean14311195
LMArena Russian14871275
LMArena Spanish14751276

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
LMArena Instruction Following14661258
LiveBench Instruction Following—56.8%
IFEval—78.2%

Long Context Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
LMArena Longer Query14741289

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGPT-4o mini
LMArena Text14791286
LMArena Creative Writing14651268
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604873
LMArena Multi-Turn14811285
Short-Story Creative Writing—67.2%
WildBench—79.1%
LiveBench Language—28.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than GPT-4o mini?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4o mini costs 5.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3.6 Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

GPT-4o mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.6 Flash lists at $0.75 and $3.75.

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

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 22.0 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 mini share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.

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