BenchLeader

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-6 Sol

Verdict
  • GPT-6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.7 vs 63.7.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, human preference, instruction following, maths.
  • GPT-6 Sol (max) is stronger in composite, knowledge, long context, reasoning.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) is 1.2× cheaper ($3.38 vs $4.00 per 1M blended).
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) streams 1.7× faster (218 vs 126 tokens per second).
MetricGemini 3.5 Flash (medium)GPT-6 Sol (max)
BenchLeader Index63.767.7
Agents & tools score67.9
Coding score58.7
Composite score69.586.2
Human preference score67.5
Instruction following score72.7
Knowledge score72.575.4
Long context score62.967.7
Maths score67.2
Multimodal score67.167.1
Reasoning score62.995.0
Blended price $/M$3.38$4.00
Output speed218 tok/s126 tok/s
Time to first answer12.8 s107.2 s
Context window1.0M1.1M
LMArena Text1474
LMArena Hard Prompts1493
LMArena Coding1502
LMArena WebDev1492
LMArena Vision1307
AA Intelligence Index33.647.5
IFBench74.6%
AA-LCR74.3%83.7%
MMMU-Pro83.9%83.3%
AA-Omniscience20.827.1
Terminal-Bench Hard39.4%
GPQA Diamond (AA)92.1%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)41.3%47.9%
SciCode (AA)57.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)95.6%
CritPt10.9%30.9%
GDPval (AA)49.4%
LMArena Maths1478
LMArena Creative Writing1466
LMArena Instruction Following1463
LMArena Multi-turn1476
LMArena Longer Queries1478
LMArena Document1461
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%
DeepSWE37.4%
GDP.pdf14.0%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)43.9%
AutomationBench61.6%
GDP.pdf24.8%
MLCR16.1%
AA-Omniscience: accuracy51.0%54.5%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination38.2%39.9%
AA-Briefcase1483

Data as of 2026-09-23. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-6 Sol: questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than GPT-6 Sol?
GPT-6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.7 vs 63.7. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-6 Sol (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-23, but check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or GPT-6 Sol?
Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper: $3.38 against $4.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Gemini 3.5 Flash or GPT-6 Sol?
Gemini 3.5 Flash streams faster: 218 against 126 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
GPT-6 Sol accepts more context: 1.1M against 1.0M tokens.