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Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ·Google vs OpenAI

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano 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
102.2
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)
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI
Quality
#33 of 65
68based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#56 of 341
94.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#62 of 450
$0.14
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.05 · Out $0.40
Cache hit price
#22 of 344
$0.005
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#193 of 487
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro scores 65 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano scores 68 — a 3-point lead for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro ahead on 3 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $3.44 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro and $0.14 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano — OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is about 25.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 102 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro and 95 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano, with time to first token at 9.1s and 2.6s. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 400k.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano is proprietary. 4 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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 65 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 68 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.44 $0.14
Output tok/s 102 95
Context window 1.05M 400k
Providers 2 2
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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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Known Good Index 65 68
Coding Index 43
Mathematics Index 89
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 = OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond85 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2584 / 81
Terminal-Bench33 / 22

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro / OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on 3 of 3, OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano on 0.

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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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Input $/1M $1.25 $0.05
Output $/1M $10.00 $0.40
Blended $/1M $3.44 $0.14
Cache read $/1M $0.125 $0.005
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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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Context window 1.05M 400k
Max output tokens 66k 128k
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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 ProOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
Output tokens/s 102 95
Time to first token 9.1s 2.6s
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Providers

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

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro blendedGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Pro tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Nano tok/s
Google · first party $3.44 112
Google AI Studio $1.72 111
Azure · first party $0.14 117
OpenAI · first party $0.07 115

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

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