Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs GPT-4o mini: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 54.2% cheaper ($35.81/mo vs $78.19/mo), while Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads in token generation speed (220 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Google Gemini API) GPT-4o mini (OpenAI) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.075 $0.150 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.020 $0.075 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $0.30 $0.60 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1210 LMSYS Elo 1224 LMSYS Elo GPT-4o mini
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $35.81 / mo $78.19 / mo Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (-54.2%)
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 128,000 tokens Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Speed (Throughput) 220 tokens/sec 140 tokens/sec Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Batch API Discount -50% (Google Gemini API) -50% (OpenAI) Google Gemini API
Primary Workload Fit Mass web scraping enrichment, classification at millions of rows per day High-volume classification, extraction, RAG summarization, low-cost chatbots Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite → Try GPT-4o mini → Open Full Simulator