Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.1 Thinking supports multimodal inputs. 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 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
5 months newer

Gemini Diffusion
Google DeepMind
2025-05-20

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
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Gemini Diffusion
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Gemini Diffusion
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