Head-to-Head Model Comparison

GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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GPT-5.4 mini

Modello Leggero ed Economico

GPT-5.4 mini di OpenAI è un modello di IA progettato per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, con finestra di contesto da 400K, velocità di 175 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 59/100 e tariffa di

Intelligence Index59 / 100

Input Token:

$0.50 / 1M

Output Token:

$4.00 / 1M

Context Window:

400K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

68.5%

Google

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Modello Leggero ed Economico

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite di Google è un modello di IA progettato per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, con finestra di contesto da 1.0M, velocità di 250 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 60/100 e ta

Intelligence Index60 / 100

Input Token:

$0.15 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.60 / 1M

Context Window:

1.05M tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is 5.4x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has a larger context window (1M vs 400K tokens).
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is faster at 250 tok/s vs 175 tok/s.

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Feature	GPT-5.4 mini	Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	59	60
Provider	OpenAI	Google
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.50 / 1M	$0.15 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$4.00 / 1M	$0.60 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.53 / 1M	$0.11 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	400K tokens~600 A4 pages of text	1.05M tokens~1,573 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	128K	33K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	175 tok/s	250 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	68.5%	N/A
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	72.5%	N/A
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.05 / 1M	$0.04 / 1M

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Evaluations ongoing

Cost

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

5.4x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

+43% faster generation

Context

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

1.05M tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

GPT-5.4 miniGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

68.5%vsN/A

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

72.5%vsN/A

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

84.8%vs78.5%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1375ptsvs1355pts

Humanity's Last Exam (Frontier Expert Knowledge)

Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.

12.2%vsN/A

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

41.5%vsN/A

SciCode (Scientific Computing)

Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.

40%vsN/A

LiveCodeBench (Competitive Coding)

Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.

67%vsN/A

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

89.6%vsN/A

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

78%vsN/A

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

175 tok/s vs250 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

GPT-5.4 mini0.76s

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite0.27s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

GPT-5.4 mini3.62s

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite2.27s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

GPT-5.4 mini Monthly API Bill

$4.42 / month

$0.5/1M in · $4/1M out

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Monthly API Bill

$0.82 / month

$0.15/1M in · $0.6/1M out

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite saves approximately $3.61 / month (82%) under this workload.5.4x Savings

GPT-5.4 mini · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 400K con capacità massima di output fino a 128K token (SWE-bench Verified 68.5% · GPQA Diamond 72.5%)
Throughput elevato di 175 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 760 ms
Economia API competitiva ($0.5/$4 per 1M di token) con supporto per prompt caching, tool calling e output JSON strutturati

Considerations & Trade-offs

Modello cloud proprietario chiuso; non consente il download locale dei pesi per l’esecuzione offline
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 1.0M con capacità massima di output fino a 33K token (MMLU-Pro 78.5% · Arena Elo 1355)
Throughput elevato di 250 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 270 ms
Economia API competitiva ($0.15/$0.6 per 1M di token) con supporto per prompt caching, tool calling e output JSON strutturati

Considerations & Trade-offs

Modello cloud proprietario chiuso; non consente il download locale dei pesi per l’esecuzione offline
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	GPT-5.4 mini	Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.62	$0.38
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	52K	14K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	27K	5K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	GPT-5.4 mini	Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Official API Model ID (SDK)	gpt-5-4-mini	models/gemini-3-1-flash-lite
API Protocol	OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1	Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
Release Date	2026-03	2026-03
Knowledge Cutoff	August 2025	November 2025
Architecture	Compact agent-ready reasoning model	Compact efficient multimodal transformer
Parameters	Confidential	Confidential
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM	10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Flat rate ($0.5/1M in) across full 400K window	Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix caching at $0.05/1M (no extra cache-write fee)	Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.035/1M with configurable TTL
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Native Web Search tool + Hosted Code Interpreter & File Search RAG	Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference (DPO) & Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT)	Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Safety & Frontier Classification	OpenAI Preparedness Framework Audited & System Card Published	Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, GPT-5.4 mini or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is more intelligent. It scores 60 compared with 59 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is faster, generating 250 tokens per second compared with 175 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.11 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.53 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.27s compared with 0.76s.

Which model has a larger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has a larger context window, supporting 1.05M tokens compared with 400K tokens.

Verdetto

Sia GPT-5.4 mini (Ideale per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Ideale per la massima efficienza dei costi per token e l’inferenza rapida in produzione, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite garantisce una generazione più rapida e Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, GPT-5.4 mini o Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra GPT-5.4 mini e Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?+

GPT-5.4 mini costa $0.50 / $4.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite costa $0.15 / $0.60. Nel costo combinato, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

GPT-5.4 mini supporta 400K token di contesto contro 1.05M token di Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, mentre Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

GPT-5.4 mini

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

GPT-5.4 mini · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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