Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $2.50 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

Gemini 2.5 Flash has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Gemini 2.5 Flash offers a larger context window. Choose Gemini 2.5 Flash or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Gemini 2.5 Flash	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.30	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$2.50	$2.00
Context window	1M	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Jun 2025	Sep 2023

Gemini 2.5 Flash details →GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct details →

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