Google: Gemini Flash Latest vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Google: Gemini Flash Latest | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | openai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 68.1 |
| Input Price | $0.75/M | $0.20/M |
| Output Price | $3.75/M | $1.25/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 400,000 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 63.1 |
| ai_index_agentic | - | 45.4 |
| ai_index_coding | - | 92.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GPT-5.4 Nano costs $0.51 and Gemini Flash Latest costs $1.69, so GPT-5.4 Nano is about 3.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini Flash Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 600 pages for GPT-5.4 Nano.
Only Gemini Flash Latest offers audio input and video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-5.4 Nano on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Gemini Flash Latest was released in April 2026 and GPT-5.4 Nano in March 2026.
Pick Gemini Flash Latest if you need long documents, audio input or video input; pick GPT-5.4 Nano if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Google: Gemini Flash Latest | OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 163 |
| Code Review | 132 | 158 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 133 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 157 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 168 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 148 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 140 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 132 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 139 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 141 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 159 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 151 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 148 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 146 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 134 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 144 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 144 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 154 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 130 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 135 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →