$ diff gpt-image-2-5-flare gemini-3-8-flash
GPT-Image-2.5 Flare vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
Values come from GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Gemini 3.8 Flash, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
OpenAIGPT-Image-2.5 Flare
- context
- —
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $30
- $/M out
- $2
- context
- 1.0M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $0.75
- $/M out
- $3.75
What actually differs
- Input price
- Gemini 3.8 Flash at $0.75/M against $30/M — 40.0× cheaper to feed.
- Output price
- GPT-Image-2.5 Flare at $2/M against $3.75/M — 1.9× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- GPT-Image-2.5 Flare shipped 6 days after Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-09-08 vs 2026-09-02).
Full spec
| Attribute | GPT-Image-2.5 Flare | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | OpenAI | Google DeepMind |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2026-09-02 |
| Context window | not recorded | 1,048,576 tokens (65,536 max output) |
| Pricing | image input $8.00/M tokens ($2.00/M cached) · image output $30.00/M tokens · text input $5.00/M tokens ($1.25/M cached) | $0.75/M input · $3.75/M output (introductory, through 2026-12-31) · $1.50/M · $7.50/M from 2027-01-01 |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Availability | OpenAI API | Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Antigravity, Android Studio, Gemini Enterprise / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform |