The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ·Google vs OpenAI

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview profile OpenAI: GPT-5.4 profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — Google
Quality
#13 of 61
83based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#68 of 316
88.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#205 of 340
$1.12
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.50 · Out $3.00
Cache hit price
#67 of 206
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#27 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 — OpenAI
Quality
#10 of 61
90based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#78 of 316
82.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#299 of 340
$5.62
Blended per 1M tokens
In $2.50 · Out $15.00
Cache hit price
#160 of 206
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#15 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores 83 and OpenAI: GPT-5.4 scores 90 — a 6-point lead for OpenAI: GPT-5.4. They share 4 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ahead on 0 and OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ahead on 4.

Blended pricing is $1.12 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and $5.62 for OpenAI: GPT-5.4 — Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is about 5.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 89 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 82 for OpenAI: GPT-5.4, with time to first token at 2.0s and 2.1s. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 1.05M.

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5.4 is proprietary. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Known Good Index 83 based on 4 of 6 evaluations 90 based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.12 $5.62
Output tok/s 89 82
Context window 1.05M 1.05M
Providers 2 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
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 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Known Good Index 83 90
Coding Index 77 89
Mathematics Index 93 95
Science Index 86 98
Reasoning Index 88
Agentic Index 77 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 3 Flash Preview · marker = OpenAI: GPT-5.4 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond83 / 93
MATH / AIME93 / 95
SWE-bench Verified75 / 77
Terminal-Bench64 / 82

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview / OpenAI: GPT-5.4. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads on 0 of 4, OpenAI: GPT-5.4 on 4.

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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 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Text Arena 1,453
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,466
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Input $/1M $0.50 $2.50
Output $/1M $3.00 $15.00
Blended $/1M $1.12 $5.62
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $0.250
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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 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Context window 1.05M 1.05M
Max output tokens 66k 128k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewOpenAI: GPT-5.4
Output tokens/s 89 82
Time to first token 2.0s 2.1s
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Providers

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

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash Preview tok/s OpenAI: GPT-5.4 blendedOpenAI: GPT-5.4 tok/s
Google · first party $0.56 85
Google AI Studio $0.56 60
Azure · first party $5.62 79
OpenAI · first party $2.81 68

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 →