Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 vs GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 and GPT-5 cost about the same per output token ($10.00 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 15 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or GPT-5: which to pick
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 400K tokens) and work measured by SciCode or SimpleBench, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 15
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 only
- 0
- GPT-5 only
- 102
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only GPT-5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 23.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 85.6%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 has a AIME result, 93.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5 has a MMLU Pro result, 86.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1184.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens against 400K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
No call
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $0.0063, GPT-5 $0.0063 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5 has the number, $0.39.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 not benchmarked, GPT-5 38.8 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 7.4 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- VPCT: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 46.4% against GPT-5 66.0%, 19.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Both cost $10.00 per million output tokens.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens, GPT-5 400K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Bars | GPT-5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 4 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 3 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 1 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 13 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index14
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 83.1% | 88.0% | GPT-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 74.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1418 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 37.8 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 79.2% | 85.9% | GPT-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.8% | 84.6% | GPT-5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 37.9% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 49.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.9% | 6.9% | GPT-5 |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 60.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 807.6 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1436 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1420 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1427 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SciCode | 7.7% | 0.0% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 23.0 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 150.0 | Only GPT-5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 86.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| METR time horizons | 55.4% | 69.6% | GPT-5 |
| Remote Labor Index | 0.8% | 1.7% | GPT-5 |
| GDPval | Not measured | 34.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 32.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | 49.6% | GPT-5 |
| BrowseComp-Plus | Not measured | 80.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 85.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.6% | 85.4% | GPT-5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.9% | 28.5% | GPT-5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 84.8% | 86.2% | GPT-5 |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 65.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 9.9% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 62.4% | 56.7% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 36.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 23.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 12.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| VPCT | 46.4% | 66.0% | GPT-5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1415 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1419 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1419 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1252 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1278 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 72.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 93.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.8% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 94.3 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 94.3% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 91.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 55.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 22.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 18.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 98.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1407 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1405 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MathArena | Not measured | 17.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 86.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 73.4% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 65.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.3% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 49.6% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 85.8% | 87.1% | GPT-5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 50.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 81.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1416 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1413 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1431 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1400 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | Not measured | 56.5% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| PRBench Finance | Not measured | 51.3% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| PRBench Legal | Not measured | 49.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1184 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1177 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1185 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1221 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1055 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1167 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1188 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1141 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 73.1% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 78.2% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 90.7% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 40.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 91.7% | 97.2% | GPT-5 |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 86.0% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1406 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1388 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1365 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1232 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1409 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1397 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1422 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1416 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1409 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1360 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1409 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1399 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1407 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1431 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1426 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1399 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1384 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1379 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1231 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1267 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1246 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1219 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1212 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1263 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1210 | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MultiChallenge | Not measured | 63.2% | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | GPT-5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Same cost
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Same cost
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Same cost
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | OpenAI GPT-5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | June 5, 2025 | August 7, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 400K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 38.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.39 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 better than GPT-5 for coding?
Only GPT-5 has a coding score, 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 400K tokens) and work measured by SciCode or SimpleBench, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or GPT-5?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; GPT-5 costs $1.25 and $10.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 or GPT-5?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 vs GPT-5 comparison based on?
15 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and GPT-5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.