Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-5 Codex
Google vs OpenAI — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •GPT-5 Codex has the higher intelligence index (87.1 vs 73.1)
- •Gemini 2.5 Flash is cheaper ($0.30 vs $1.25 per 1M input)
- •GPT-5 Codex is faster
- •Gemini 2.5 Flash has a larger context window (1M)
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | GPT-5 Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 73.1 | 87.1 |
| Developer | OpenAI | |
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 400,000 tokens |
| Input price | $0.30 / 1M | $1.25 / 1M |
| Output price | $2.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Speed | 85 tok/s | 180 tok/s |
| Released | April 17, 2025 | September 23, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Input modalities | Text, Image, Audio, Video | Text, Image |
| Output modalities | Text | Text |
Shared benchmarks
Gemini 2.5 Flash
GPT-5 Codex
AIME 2025
72
98.7
GPQA Diamond
82.8
83.7
Humanity’s Last Exam
11
25.6
LiveCodeBench
69.5
84
MMLU-Pro
83.2
86.5
SWE-bench Verified
60.4
74.5