The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini ·Google vs OpenAI

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview profile OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini 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 Mini — OpenAI
Quality
#34 of 61
60based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#47 of 316
99.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#162 of 340
$0.69
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.25 · Out $2.00
Cache hit price
#39 of 206
$0.025
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#104 of 345
400k
tokens (~600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores 83 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini scores 60 — a 23-point lead for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview. They share 4 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ahead on 4 and OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $1.12 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and $0.69 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini — OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini is about 1.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 89 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 100 for OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini, with time to first token at 2.0s and 3.3s. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 400k.

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is proprietary; OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini 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 Mini
Known Good Index 83 based on 4 of 6 evaluations 60 based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.69
Output tok/s 89 100
Context window 1.05M 400k
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 Mini
Known Good Index 83 60
Coding Index 77 50
Mathematics Index 93 93
Science Index 86 76
Reasoning Index 57
Agentic Index 77 50
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 Mini · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond83 / 75
MATH / AIME93 / 87
SWE-bench Verified75 / 65
Terminal-Bench64 / 35

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview / OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads on 4 of 4, OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini 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.

Neither model currently appears in an arena we ingest.

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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 Mini
Input $/1M $0.50 $0.25
Output $/1M $3.00 $2.00
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.69
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $0.025
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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 Mini
Context window 1.05M 400k
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 Mini
Output tokens/s 89 100
Time to first token 2.0s 3.3s
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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 Mini blendedOpenAI: GPT-5 Mini tok/s
Google · first party $0.56 85
Google AI Studio $0.56 60
OpenAI · first party $0.34 142
Azure · first party $0.69 78

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

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