Question 1

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1?

Accepted Answer

Gemini 2.5 Pro has cheaper input tokens ($1.25/M), while GPT-4.1 has cheaper output tokens ($8.00/M). The best value depends on your input-to-output ratio.

Question 2

Which is faster, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 is faster at 88 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 260ms, compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70 tokens/sec and 400ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1?

Accepted Answer

Gemini 2.5 Pro has a 1049K token context window, which is larger GPT-4.1's 1048K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-4.1?

Accepted Answer

Gemini 2.5 Pro has a higher coding ELO of 1350 compared to GPT-4.1's 1320, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	Gemini 2.5 Pro	GPT-4.1
Provider	Google	OpenAI
Input Price / 1M tokens	$1.25	$2.00
Output Price / 1M tokens	$10.00	$8.00
Context Window	1.048576M	1.047576M
Max Output Tokens	65,536	32,768
Arena ELO	1,340	1,290
Coding ELO	1,350	1,320
TTFT (ms)	400	260
Tokens/sec	70	88
Multimodal	Yes	Yes
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	Yes

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