Gemini 2.5 Pro vs GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 2.5 Pro by Google or GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

GoogleGemini 2.5 ProOff the frontier

Intelligence: 16.10
Total cost: $823

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (Max)On the frontier

Intelligence: 51.80
Total cost: $1082

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 35.7 points higher (51.8 vs 16.1) but costs 1.3× as much to run the benchmark ($1082 vs $823; both premium class). Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Metric	Gemini 2.5 Pro	GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	16.1	51.8	+221.7% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 3.2× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$822.85	$1,081.55	+31.4% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 31.4% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	27.13s	220.48s	+712.7% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 712.7% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.25 / $10.0	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: 221.7% more intelligence, 31.4% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 712.7% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 2.5 Pro is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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