Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5 mini (Minimal)

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs GPT-5 mini (Minimal). A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash-LiteOff the frontier
Intelligence
22.20
Total cost
$366
OpenAIGPT-5 mini (Minimal)Not ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
9.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricGemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGPT-5 mini (Minimal)Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)22.29.9−55.4% GPT-5 mini (Minimal) is 55.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$365.63Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)9.51s4.97s−47.7% GPT-5 mini (Minimal) is 47.7% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.30 / $2.50$0.25 / $2.00
Input modalitiesText, Image, Speech, VideoText, Image
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