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Gemini 4 Carbon vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-6 Astra

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Winner summary

GPT-6 Astra wins 13 of 29 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · speed · coding.

Category leads
agentic·Gemini 4 Carbonreasoning·Gemini 4 Carbonknowledge·Gemini 4 Carbongeneral·GPT-6 Astramath·GPT-6.1 Solspeed·GPT-6 Astracoding·GPT-6 Astra
Hype vs Reality
Gemini 4 Carbon
#1 by perf·#8 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-6.1 Sol
#10 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-6 Astra
#9 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.1x better value than GPT-6.1 Sol
Gemini 4 Carbon
14.3 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-6.1 Sol
12.5 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-6 Astra
2.5 pts/$
$30.00/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$3.61T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Gemini 4 CarbonGPT-6.1 SolGPT-6 Astra
APEX-Agents
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +19.5
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 4 Carbon
84.2
GPT-6.1 Sol
60.0
GPT-6 Astra
64.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Gemini 4 Carbon
98.5
GPT-6.1 Sol
98.5
GPT-6 Astra
98.5
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-6 Astra leads by +0.8
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Gemini 4 Carbon
94.2
GPT-6.1 Sol
94.2
GPT-6 Astra
95.0
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +2.1
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 4 Carbon
76.8
GPT-6.1 Sol
66.3
GPT-6 Astra
74.8
Ebr Bench
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +11.4
Gemini 4 Carbon
87.6
GPT-6.1 Sol
54.3
GPT-6 Astra
76.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +2.4
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
100.0
GPT-6 Astra
97.6
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Gemini 4 Carbon
95.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
98.6
GPT-6 Astra
98.6
Furniture Assembly
Gemini 4 Carbon
67.9
GPT-6.1 Sol
71.4
GPT-6 Astra
71.4
GPQA diamond
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +1.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 4 Carbon
99.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
97.8
GPT-6 Astra
98.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-6 Astra leads by +4.4
Gemini 4 Carbon
70.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
78.0
GPT-6 Astra
82.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 4 Carbon
100.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
100.0
GPT-6 Astra
100.0
SimpleBench
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +7.3
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Gemini 4 Carbon
91.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
79.5
GPT-6 Astra
83.8
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 4 Carbon leads by +2.1
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Gemini 4 Carbon
77.7
GPT-6.1 Sol
73.9
GPT-6 Astra
75.6
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
GPT-6.1 Sol
31.7
GPT-6 Astra
31.7
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +1.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
54.7
GPT-6 Astra
53.6
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
GPT-6 Astra leads by +1.8
GPT-6.1 Sol
52.9
GPT-6 Astra
54.7
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +2.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
83.0
GPT-6 Astra
80.7
Artificial Analysis · MMMU Pro
GPT-6 Astra leads by +0.9
GPT-6.1 Sol
86.0
GPT-6 Astra
86.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
GPT-6 Astra leads by +0.8
GPT-6.1 Sol
51.8
GPT-6 Astra
52.7
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
GPT-6 Astra leads by +2.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
54.2
GPT-6 Astra
56.5
Dtbench
GPT-6 Astra leads by +1.3
GPT-6.1 Sol
94.2
GPT-6 Astra
95.5
Frontiercode
GPT-6 Astra leads by +3.0
GPT-6.1 Sol
50.2
GPT-6 Astra
53.3
Frontierswe
GPT-6 Astra leads by +4.3
Gemini 4 Carbon
61.2
GPT-6 Astra
65.5
Lmca
GPT-6 Astra leads by +1.9
GPT-6.1 Sol
73.9
GPT-6 Astra
75.7
Mirrorcode
GPT-6.1 Sol leads by +1.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
61.1
GPT-6 Astra
60.0
PostTrainBench
GPT-6 Astra leads by +3.1
GPT-6.1 Sol
38.8
GPT-6 Astra
41.9
Proofbench
GPT-6.1 Sol
99.0
GPT-6 Astra
99.0
SpireClimb
GPT-6 Astra leads by +10.2
GPT-6.1 Sol
23.8
GPT-6 Astra
34.0
WeirdML v3
GPT-6 Astra leads by +3.8
GPT-6.1 Sol
56.2
GPT-6 Astra
60.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemini 4 CarbonGPT-6.1 SolGPT-6 Astra
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
84.260.064.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.598.598.5
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
94.294.295.0
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
76.866.374.8
Ebr Bench
87.654.376.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
95.1100.097.6
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
95.398.698.6
Furniture Assembly
67.971.471.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
99.397.898.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
70.378.082.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
100.0100.0100.0
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
91.179.583.8
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
77.773.975.6
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
n/a31.731.7
Artificial Analysis · GDPval
n/a54.753.6
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
n/a52.954.7
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
n/a83.080.7
Artificial Analysis · MMMU Pro
n/a86.086.9
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
n/a51.852.7
Artificial Analysis · SciCode
n/a54.256.5
Dtbench
n/a94.295.5
Frontiercode
n/a50.253.3
Frontierswe
61.2n/a65.5
Lmca
n/a73.975.7
Mirrorcode
n/a61.160.0
PostTrainBench
n/a38.841.9
Proofbench
n/a99.099.0
SpireClimb
n/a23.834.0
WeirdML v3
n/a56.260.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 4 Carbon$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$40.00
OpenAI logoGPT-6.1 Sol$2.00$10.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$40.00
OpenAI logoGPT-6 Astra$10.00$50.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$200.00