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GPT-5.6 Sol vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: API cost compared

GPT-5.6 Sol lists at $2.500 in / $15.00 out per 1M tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite lists at $0.100 in / $0.400. Sticker price only tells you so much — below is what each actually costs across eight production workloads.

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Cheaper on more workloads
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
wins 8 of 8
Blended rate gap
32.1x
at 3:1 in:out

Side by side

GPT-5.6 SolGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
ProviderOpenAIGoogle
Input per 1M$2.500$0.100
Output per 1M$15.00$0.400
Cached input per 1M$0.250not published
Context window400k1M
Blended per 1M (3:1)$5.625$0.175

Monthly cost by workload

Caching applied at each workload's typical hit rate. This is where the two models actually separate.

WorkloadGPT-5.6 SolGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteCheaperDifference
Customer support chatbot$366.00$16.00Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$350.00 (96%)
RAG document Q&A$490.00$20.80Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$469.20 (96%)
Coding agent$261.25$14.80Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$246.45 (94%)
Bulk summarization$3,465$136.00Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$3,329 (96%)
Structured data extraction$4,675$225.00Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$4,450 (95%)
Long-form content generation$636.50$18.00Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$618.50 (97%)
Email triage agent$1,081$62.00Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$1,019 (94%)
Translation pipeline$4,112$118.50Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite$3,993 (97%)
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How to read this

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper on the majority of these workloads, but "majority" is not the decision. The output:input price ratio is 6.0 for GPT-5.6 Sol and 4.0 for Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. If your traffic is output-heavy — long-form drafting, translation — the model with the lower output price wins regardless of what the input price suggests. If you are input-heavy — RAG, bulk summarization, agents re-reading a codebase — the cached input rate matters more than either headline number.

Cost is also not the only axis. This site does not benchmark quality, latency, or rate limits, and a model that is 3x cheaper but needs two attempts per task is not cheaper. Use these numbers to size a bill, then validate on your own evals.

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