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GPT-5.6 Terra vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: API cost compared
GPT-5.6 Terra lists at $1.000 in / $6.000 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.
Side by side
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | |
| Input per 1M | $1.000 | $0.100 |
| Output per 1M | $6.000 | $0.400 |
| Cached input per 1M | $0.100 | not published |
| Context window | 400k | 1M |
| Blended per 1M (3:1) | $2.250 | $0.175 |
Monthly cost by workload
Caching applied at each workload's typical hit rate. This is where the two models actually separate.
| Workload | GPT-5.6 Terra | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Cheaper | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer support chatbot | $146.40 | $16.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $130.40 (89%) |
| RAG document Q&A | $196.00 | $20.80 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $175.20 (89%) |
| Coding agent | $104.50 | $14.80 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $89.70 (86%) |
| Bulk summarization | $1,386 | $136.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $1,250 (90%) |
| Structured data extraction | $1,870 | $225.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $1,645 (88%) |
| Long-form content generation | $254.60 | $18.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $236.60 (93%) |
| Email triage agent | $432.50 | $62.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $370.50 (86%) |
| Translation pipeline | $1,645 | $118.50 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $1,526 (93%) |
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 Terra 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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