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Key Takeaways

The readout for Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4o, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Decision read

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash currently has the stronger profile, with verified wins split 3 to 1.

Evidence depth

107 data points

Includes 31 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 5 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with Gemini 2.5 Flash

The charts below split 36 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

Change comparison

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Model compare

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-4o

gemini-2-5-flash-vs-gpt-4o

Model A

Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Model B

OpenAI

GPT-4o

Overall leaderLeadingContender
Verified metric wins3 wins1 wins
Where it leadsAverage speed, Provider coverage, Recent testsFirst-token latency
Model metadataGemini 2.5 Flash exposes 1.0M tokens; notable signals: Text input, Image input, File input, Audio input.GPT-4o exposes 128K tokens; notable signals: Text input, Image input, File input, Text output.
DeveloperGoogleOpenAI
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokens
Max output65.5K tokens16.4K tokens
ReleasedJun 2025Nov 2024
Modalities

Input

FileImageTextAudiovideo

Output

Text

Input

TextImageFile

Output

Text
Features
Text inputImage inputFile inputAudio inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeWeb search
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGeminiGPT
Knowledge cutoff2025-01-312023-10-31
OpenRouter IDgoogle/gemini-2.5-flashopenai/gpt-4o
ReferencesNo dataNo data

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
7 / 8
Model B coverage
7 / 8
Shared
7 shared categories
Gemini 2.5 FlashGPT-4o
Category performanceCompare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.AgentsCodingReasoningKnowledgeMathMultilingualMultimodalInstruction following

Avg. score

Gemini 2.5 Flash

50

Avg. score

GPT-4o

43

Selected category

Math

Gemini 2.5 Flash leads by 44.7

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Aggregatereported

BenchLM overall score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

39.0

Rank #69/96 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+3.0

GPT-4o

winner

42.0

Rank #65/96 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Performanceverified

Output speed

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

230.1 tok/s

Rank #6/113 · confidence 4

+34.7 tok/s

GPT-4o

195.5 tok/s

Rank #14/113 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Time to first answer token

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

13.57 s

Rank #68/113 · confidence 4

+13.05 s

GPT-4o

winner

0.51 s

Rank #6/113 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Time to first token

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

13.57 s

Rank #95/113 · confidence 4

+13.05 s

GPT-4o

winner

0.51 s

Rank #10/113 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

$0.300/M

Rank #41/138 · confidence 4

+$2.20/M

GPT-4o

$2.50/M

Rank #114/138 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

$0.850/M

Rank #58/138 · confidence 4

+$3.52/M

GPT-4o

$4.38/M

Rank #109/138 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

$2.50/M

Rank #66/138 · confidence 4

+$7.50/M

GPT-4o

$10.00/M

Rank #103/138 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

MMLU-Pro

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

83.2%

Rank #38/113 · confidence 4

+8.4%

GPT-4o

74.8%

Rank #84/113 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

BenchLM Reasoning score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

42.2

Rank #44/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+2.2

GPT-4o

winner

44.4

Rank #42/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

79.0%

Rank #59/152 · confidence 4

+24.7%

GPT-4o

54.3%

Rank #126/152 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

11.1%

Rank #67/150 · confidence 4

+7.8%

GPT-4o

3.3%

Rank #143/150 · confidence 4

Codingverified

LiveCodeBench

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

69.5%

Rank #32/108 · confidence 4

+38.6%

GPT-4o

30.9%

Rank #86/108 · confidence 4

Codingreported

Terminal-Bench Hard

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

12.1

Rank #59/69 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+3.8

GPT-4o

8.3

Rank #61/69 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

29.1

Rank #67/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+4.2

GPT-4o

winner

33.3

Rank #61/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Codingverified

SciCode

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

39.4%

Rank #62/149 · confidence 4

+6.1%

GPT-4o

33.3%

Rank #96/149 · confidence 4

Codingreported

BenchLM Coding score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

20.4

Rank #74/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+11.2

GPT-4o

winner

31.6

Rank #67/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Mathverified

MATH-500

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

98.1%

Rank #7/62 · confidence 4

+22.2%

GPT-4o

75.9%

Rank #49/62 · confidence 4

Mathverified

AIME

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

82.3%

Rank #11/60 · confidence 4

+67.3%

GPT-4o

15.0%

Rank #44/60 · confidence 4

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

93.3

Rank #5/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+55.4

GPT-4o

37.9

Rank #59/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

26.5

Rank #38/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+6.8

GPT-4o

19.7

Rank #57/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

68.3

Rank #57/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+14.0

GPT-4o

54.3

Rank #69/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

5.1

Rank #59/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+1.8

GPT-4o

3.3

Rank #72/74 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

14.1

Rank #66/77 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+3.0

GPT-4o

11.2

Rank #68/77 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

27.1

Rank #73/79 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+6.1

GPT-4o

winner

33.2

Rank #68/79 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Multilingualreported

BenchLM Multilingual score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

33.6

Rank #43/59 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+8.4

GPT-4o

winner

42.0

Rank #39/59 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Multimodalreported

BenchLM Multimodal Grounded score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

54.8

Rank #51/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+7.2

GPT-4o

winner

62.0

Rank #37/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Multimodalreported

Design Arena Website

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

1158.0

Rank #41/50 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+284.0

GPT-4o

874.0

Rank #49/50 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Instruction followingreported

BenchLM Instruction Following score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

49.1

Rank #53/66 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+10.8

GPT-4o

winner

59.9

Rank #47/66 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

winner

39.0

Rank #58/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+4.7

GPT-4o

34.3

Rank #66/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Agentsreported

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

37.3

Rank #61/81 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+0.8

GPT-4o

winner

38.1

Rank #59/81 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

Agentsreported

Tau2-Telecom

SourceGemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash

14.9

Rank #68/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-06-17

+10.2

GPT-4o

winner

25.1

Rank #61/68 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-05-13

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
GeminiGemini 2.5 Flash
OpenAIGPT-4o
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
GeminiGemini 2.5 Flash
OpenAIGPT-4o
ChatAnywhere82 tests
Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

OpenAI

GPT-4o

speed / latency

82 tok/s / 3100ms

input / output

No data

SWT-API25 tests
Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

speed / latency

139 tok/s / 4002ms

input / output

No data

OpenAI

GPT-4o

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

CatClaw API20 tests
Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

speed / latency

54 tok/s / 10365ms

input / output

No data

OpenAI

GPT-4o

speed / latency

57 tok/s / 3381ms

input / output

No data

速创API20 tests
Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

OpenAI

GPT-4o

speed / latency

88 tok/s / 1593ms

input / output

No data

MN API10 tests
Gemini

Gemini 2.5 Flash

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

OpenAI

GPT-4o

speed / latency

99 tok/s / 2367ms

input / output

No data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Gemini 2.5 Flash and GPT-4o: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Guidance
GeminiGemini 2.5 Flash
OpenAIGPT-4o
When to choose each model

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is stronger when you prioritize Average speed, Provider coverage, Recent tests.

GPT-4o

GPT-4o is stronger when you prioritize First-token latency.

FAQ

TL;DR: Gemini 2.5 Flash leads across 107 verifiable data points, including pricing, speed, latency, benchmarks, and provider examples.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 5 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

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Data as of Jul 9, 2026, 10:54 PM·Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.