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Gemini 3.5 Flash vs GPT-5.4

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Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google's stable frontier model for sustained agentic and coding work, the current GA workhorse of the Gemini 3 family.
GPT-5.4
OpenAI's more affordable frontier model for coding and professional work, sitting below GPT-5.5.
Category modelmodel
Vendor type commercialcommercial
Pricing usageusage
Strengths
  • + Only stable GA model in the Gemini 3.x family as of June 2026; positioned for agentic execution and sub-agent deployment
  • + 1M-token context window with thought preservation across multi-turn agent loops
  • + Rich built-in tool ecosystem (search/maps grounding, code execution, file search, function calling)
  • + Half the per-token price of GPT-5.5 while staying in the frontier coding/professional tier
  • + 1M-token context window with up to 128K output tokens
  • + mini variant targeted at subagent and computer-use workloads for high-volume agent fleets
Tradeoffs
  • − Per Google docs: Computer Use is not supported at this moment (it was available in the Gemini 3 Flash Preview)
  • − Output capped at 65k tokens, lower than competing flagships' 128k
  • − OpenAI directs complex reasoning and coding to GPT-5.5 instead
  • − Older knowledge cutoff (Aug 31, 2025) than GPT-5.5
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