GPT-6 Sol vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) costs $1.50 and $9.00. Gemini 3.5 Flash is 1.2× cheaper for a typical 3:1 input-to-output mix. Gemini 3.5 Flash has the larger context window (1.05M vs 922K tokens).

GPT-6 SolGemini 3.5 Flash
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Input / 1M tokens$2.00$1.50
Output / 1M tokens$10.00$9.00
Cached input / 1M$0.20$0.15
Blended (3:1)$4.00$3.38
Context window922K1.05M
Max output128K66K
VisionYesYes
Tool useYesYes
ReasoningYesYes
Listed sinceSep 27, 2026May 23, 2026

Cost per 1,000 requests

WorkloadGPT-6 SolGemini 3.5 Flash
Chatbot reply2,000 input + 500 output tokens$9.00$7.50
RAG / search answer8,000 input + 700 output tokens$23.00$18.30
Long-document summary100,000 input + 2,000 output tokens$220.00$168.00

Blended price history

GPT-6 SolGemini 3.5 Flash
$0$1.25$2.50$3.75$5.00Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26$4.00$3.38

Blended = (3 × input + output) ÷ 4, per million tokens. Each line starts when the model first appeared in the price list.

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List prices for each provider's own API (USD), taken daily from LiteLLM's public model price list. Batch, caching and committed-use discounts aren't reflected. Price alone says nothing about output quality; check benchmarks and your own evaluations before switching.