Head to head
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.5
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google Ai Studio | OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Openai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $0.750 | $2.50 |
| Output $/M tokens | $3.75 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| WM Score | 83 | 85 |
| Benchmark quality | 80.2 | 86.1 |
| Hosts serving it | 2 | 3 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 109.5 | 93 |
| Latency (ms) | 1873 | 5132 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 3.3× cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-5.5. OpenAI: GPT-5.5 scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-5.5 takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.