Comparing 2 models

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Benchmarks through

Verdict

GPT-6.1 Sol places higher on 5 of the 5 tasks where both are ranked. Gemini 3.5 Flash costs 1.3x less per input token. GPT-6.1 Sol accepts 1.0x more context.

  • Choose GPT-6.1 Sol for Translation (#2), Literary Translation (#2), RAG & Long Context (#2).

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1Gemini 3.5 Flash
Model 2GPT-6.1 Sol
Best for
Business Writing (#6)
Image Understanding (#1)
Provider
google
openai
Context
1.0M
1.1MBest
Input / 1M
$1.50Best
$2
Output / 1M
$9Best
$10
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
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Released
May 19, 2026
Sep 29, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-6.1 SolSource
Design Arena Coding1268 Elo1346 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena UI1272 Elo1331 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Website1269 Elo1323 Elosource · 2026-10-16
FACTS Grounding73.2%82.4%source · 2026-10-16
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)62.8% ± 2.993.7% ± 1.4source · 2026-06-10
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)88.9% ± 2.295.4% ± 1.4source · 2026-08-06
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)86.4% ± 2.495.4% ± 1.4source · 2026-07-15
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)92.8% ± 1.695.4% ± 1.4source · 2026-05-22
LiveBench Agentic Coding49.0%54.5%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Coding78.2%80.4%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Data Analysis64.9%82.7%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Instruction Following75.6%74.2%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Language84.6%90.1%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Math88.2%96.8%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Reasoning82%92.6%source · 2026-10-16
LMArena Creative Writing1468 Elo1430 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1467 Elo1469 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1483 Elo1464 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1503 Elo1470 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1477 Elo1484 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1477 Elo1465 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Vision1284 Elo1294 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision Diagrams1309 Elo1311 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision OCR1293 Elo1295 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena WebDev1499 Elo1760 Elosource · 2026-10-13
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web1501 Elo1703 Elosource · 2026-10-09
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)88.9% ± 4.7100% ± 0source · 2026-08-06
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)80% ± 6100% ± 0source · 2026-07-15
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)95.6% ± 2.7100% ± 0source · 2026-05-25
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)66.2% ± 1.573.9% ± 1.4source · 2026-08-27

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.

task evidence

How they place when the question changes

Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.