Head to head
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Ai Studio | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Openai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $0.750 | $2.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $3.75 | $12.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.1M |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| WM Score | 88 | 87 |
| Benchmark quality | 86.9 | 86.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 2 | 3 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 149 | 72 |
| Latency (ms) | 2460 | 3609 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 2.7× cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra. Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra 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.