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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-07.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score51.5-
Input Price$0.30/M$2.00/M
Output Price$2.50/M$12.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index45.5-
ai_index_agentic26.5-
ai_index_coding81.4-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
SQL Generation 156 132
Code Review 152 132
Code Completion 132 117
Code Refactoring 152 136
Bug Fixing 160 136
Unit Test Generation 143 124
Code Documentation 138 129
Regex Writing 128 117
CI/CD Pipelines 134 120
Frontend Component Design 136 122
Data Analysis 150 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 148 132
ETL Scripting 143 128
JSON Extraction 144 121
Bulk Data Labeling 133 117
OCR / Document Parsing 141 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 131
Long-Document Summarization 149 136
Short-Form Summarization 128 113
Blog Post Writing 132 120

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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