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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-5.5

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Winner summary

GPT-5.5 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5.5knowledge·GPT-5.5
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 3.5 Flash
#44 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.5
#2 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
2.5x better value than GPT-5.5
Gemini 3.5 Flash
11.9 pts/$
$5.25/M
GPT-5.5
4.9 pts/$
$17.50/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
92.5
GPT-5.5
95.0
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +3.2
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
90.4
GPT-5.5
93.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
92.595.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
90.493.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.5 Flash$1.50$9.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$33.75
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5$5.00$30.00400K tokens (~200 books)$112.50