Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 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 3.5 Flash-LiteOff the frontier

Intelligence: 22.20
Total cost: $366

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 29.6 points higher (51.8 vs 22.2) but costs 3.0× as much to run the benchmark ($1082 vs $366; premium vs mid-range cost classes). Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite	GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	22.2	51.8	+133.3% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 2.3× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$365.63	$1,081.55	+195.8% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 3.0× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	8.60s	220.48s	+2463.7% GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is 2463.7% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.30 / $2.50	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: 133.3% more intelligence, 195.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 2463.7% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Medium) scores 47.80 for $361.
GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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