Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o3 leads with 28.9% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 708.2K more tokens in context window than o3. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $49.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, o3 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
OpenAI
OpenAI o3, released by OpenAI in April 2025, is a large reasoning model that applies extended chain-of-thought processing to deliver improved performance on complex math, science, and coding tasks. It features a 200K token context window and native image understanding, with demonstrated strong results on mathematics and software engineering benchmarks. o3 targets demanding analytical and engineering tasks where deliberate, multi-step reasoning produces significantly better outcomes than direct generation.
2 months newer

o3
OpenAI
2025-04-16

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Gemini 2.5 Flash
o3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks
Gemini 2.5 Flash
o3
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI
o3
Gemini 2.5 Flash
o3
Gemini 2.5 Flash
o3
o3
OpenAI