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OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Vendoropenaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score37.7-
Input Price$0.75/M$0.25/M
Output Price$4.50/M$1.50/M
Context Window400,0001,048,576
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index39.7-

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
SQL Generation 138 133
Code Review 139 132
Code Refactoring 142 136
Bug Fixing 143 136
Unit Test Generation 128 124
Code Documentation 134 131
Regex Writing 122 119
CI/CD Pipelines 124 120
Frontend Component Design 126 122
Data Analysis 130 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 133 128
JSON Extraction 130 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 131
Long-Document Summarization 143 137
Short-Form Summarization 124 123
Blog Post Writing 126 121

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

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