Head to head
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Openai | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Ai Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $1.00 | $0.750 |
| Output $/M tokens | $5.00 | $3.75 |
| Context window | 1.1M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 128K | 66K |
| WM Score | 92 | 88 |
| Benchmark quality | 93.6 | 86.9 |
| Hosts serving it | 3 | 2 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 71 | 149 |
| Latency (ms) | 3110 | 2460 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 1.3× cheaper than OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on measured quality. OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol 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.