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Gemini 3.5 FlashvsGPT-5.3-Codex

GPT-5.3-Codex leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Flash is 1.5x cheaper per token. Gemini 3.5 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 3
GPT-5.3-Codex leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.5 Flash
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Google · OpenAI
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google · released 2026-05-19
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$1.5 ↗
Output /1M
$9 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
42 · 12 core
GPT-5.3-Codex
OpenAI · released 2026-02-05
textvision
Context
400K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$1.75 ↗
Output /1M
$14 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.175
Scores
9 · 2 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.3-CodexΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
OSWorld-Verified78.4% ↗64.7% ↗+13.7 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
SWE-Bench Pro (Public)55.1% ↗56.8% ↗-1.7 ptGPT-5.3-Codex
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)79.3% ↗epoch run74.8% ↗epoch run+4.5 ptGemini 3.5 Flash
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)5396.42 ↗5940.12 ↗-543.7GPT-5.3-Codex
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)62.6% ↗79.3% ↗-16.7 ptGPT-5.3-Codex
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash reports · 31
GPQA Diamond92.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
AIME 202695% ↗matharena ⚠not reported——
LMArena Elo1477.4 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)27.5% ↗not reported——
ARC-AGI-272.1% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)50% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)36.1% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)4.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)26.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)62.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPVal-AA1656 ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (full set, text + MM)40.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)49% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)78.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)64.9% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)75.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)84.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)88.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)82% ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1284.4 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1499 ↗not reported——
MCP Atlas83.6% ↗not reported——
MMMU-Pro83.6% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)32% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)95.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)49.9% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)76.7% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified66.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-bench 2.176.2% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)6.1% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)67.3% ↗not reported——
Only GPT-5.3-Codex reports · 4
Cybersecurity Capture The Flag Challengesnot reported77.6% ↗——
GDPval (wins or ties)not reported70.9% ↗——
SWE-Lancer IC Diamondnot reported81.4% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.0not reported77.3% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 3.5 Flash minus GPT-5.3-Codex in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.3-CodexEdge
Context window1.0M tokens400K tokensGemini 3.5 Flash
Max output66K tokens128K tokensGPT-5.3-Codex
Input price / 1M$1.5 ↗$1.75 ↗Gemini 3.5 Flash
Output price / 1M$9 ↗$14 ↗Gemini 3.5 Flash
Cached input / 1M$0.15 ↗$0.175 ↗Gemini 3.5 Flash
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$10.5$15.75Gemini 3.5 Flash
Modalitiestext · vision · audiotext · visionGemini 3.5 Flash
Released2026-05-192026-02-05—
Cited benchmark scores429—
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