Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) vs GPT-6 Sol (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) by Google or GPT-6 Sol (Max) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $4222

OpenAIGPT-6 Sol (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 47.60
Total cost: $1536

Verdict

Pick GPT-6 Sol (Max)

GPT-6 Sol (Max) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (High): 46.0% more intelligence, 63.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 426.9% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)	GPT-6 Sol (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	47.6	+46.0% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 46.0% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$4,222.12	$1,535.80	−63.6% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 63.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	16.52s	87.05s	+426.9% GPT-6 Sol (Max) is 426.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $9.00	$2.00 / $10.0
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
GPT-6 Sol (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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