Head to head

o3 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

On a blended workload of one million input tokens and three million output tokens, Gemini 3.6 Flash is 1.1× cheaper than o3.

o3Gemini 3.6 Flash
Provider OpenAI Google
Input / MTok $2 $1.5
Output / MTok $8 $7.5
Cache read / MTok $0.5 $0.15
Context window 200,000
Blended 1M in + 3M out $26.00 $24.00
Status ga ga

o3 detail   Gemini 3.6 Flash detail