Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemini Diffusion is an experimental text and code generation model from Google DeepMind, announced at Google I/O in May 2025 as the first diffusion-based language model to achieve quality comparable to autoregressive models on standard benchmarks. Unlike transformer-based models that predict tokens sequentially left-to-right, it generates entire blocks of text by iteratively refining noise — the paradigm used in image and video generation models — enabling faster sampling speeds and stronger mid-generation error correction for code and mathematical editing tasks. At announcement it was available only as an experimental demo via waitlist, with no public API, marking it as a research milestone rather than a production deployment.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Codex, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is a coding-specialized model from the GPT-5.1 family engineered for software engineering tasks including code generation, multi-file editing, and agentic development. It targets developers and automated coding pipelines requiring a GPT-5.1-generation model tuned for programming.
5 months newer

Gemini Diffusion
Google DeepMind
2025-05-20

GPT-5.1 Codex
OpenAI
2025-11
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemini Diffusion
GPT-5.1 Codex
Gemini Diffusion
GPT-5.1 Codex