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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4o

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Gemini 2.5 Flash GPT-4o
Input cost / 1M $0.30 $2.50
Output cost / 1M $2.50 $10.00
Context window 1,000,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Input: 1M × $0.30 = $0.30
Output: 1M × $2.50 = $2.50
Total
$2.80

GPT-4o

Input: 1M × $2.50 = $2.50
Output: 1M × $10.00 = $10.00
Total
$12.50

Total cost savings

$9.70

Gemini 2.5 Flash saves $9.70 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. GPT-4o is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Gemini 2.5 Flash handles routine traffic.

Premium model

GPT-4o

$2.50 in · $10.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

Gemini 2.5 Flash

$0.30 in · $2.50 out / 1M

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All premium

GPT-4o

$625.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Gemini 2.5 Flash

GPT-4o

$237.00

Routine slice
$112.00
Premium slice
$125.00

Monthly savings

$388.00

62.1% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (gpt-4o, gemini-2-5-flash) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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