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Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs gpt-5.5-pre-release ·Google vs OpenAI

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs gpt-5.5-pre-release — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro profile gpt-5.5-pre-release profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro — Google
Quality
#38 of 65
65based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#48 of 341
101.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#352 of 450
$3.44
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $10.00
Cache hit price
#196 of 344
$0.12
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#91 of 487
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
gpt-5.5-pre-release — OpenAI
Quality
#1 of 65
97based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro scores 65 and gpt-5.5-pre-release scores 97 — a 33-point lead for gpt-5.5-pre-release. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro ahead on 0 and gpt-5.5-pre-release ahead on 3.

Published pricing is tracked for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro only, at $3.44 per 1M tokens blended.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary; gpt-5.5-pre-release is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Known Good Index 65 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 97 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.44
Output tok/s 102
Context window 1.05M
Providers 2 0
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Known Good Index 65 97
Coding Index 43
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro · marker = gpt-5.5-pre-release · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond85 / 94
Mock AIME 2024–2584 / 100
SWE-bench Verified58 / 81

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro / gpt-5.5-pre-release. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on 0 of 3, gpt-5.5-pre-release on 3.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Text Arena 1,458
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,446
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Input $/1M $1.25
Output $/1M $10.00
Blended $/1M $3.44
Cache read $/1M $0.125
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Context window 1.05M
Max output tokens 66k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Progpt-5.5-pre-release
Output tokens/s 102
Time to first token 9.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro blendedGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Pro tok/s gpt-5.5-pre-release blendedgpt-5.5-pre-release tok/s
Google AI Studio $1.72 113
Google · first party $3.44 112

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →