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GPT-5 Turbo vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

OpenAI vs Google DeepMind. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

GPT-5 Turbo leads on LMSYS ELO (1398 vs 1312). Gemini 2.5 Flash is ~20.0× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

OpenAI
GPT-5 Turbo

OpenAI’s flagship unified model. Handles text, vision, and audio natively. The generalist benchmark champion.

Native multimodalStrong math and scienceHuge ecosystem
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash

Google’s price/performance darling. 1M context at $0.30/M input — nobody comes close on throughput-per-dollar.

Absurd cost-to-context ratioFast multimodalFree tier via AI Studio
Pricing
Input / 1M$6.00$0.30
Output / 1M$24.00$1.20
Context400K1.0M
Max output32K32K
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Released2026-01-212026-02-05
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1398.01312.0
MMLU Pro91.282.1
HumanEval93.085.8
SWE-Bench65.8
MATH91.584.2
GPQA68.1
MMMU78.874.6
IFEval88.986.1
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.102$0.0051
Review a 500-line pull request$0.096$0.0048
Answer a customer support ticket$0.037$0.0019
Extract structured data from a resume$0.054$0.0027
Debug a stack trace with context$0.084$0.0042

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.