Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

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

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 97.3% cheaper ($35.81/mo vs $1303.12/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 (OpenAI) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.075 $2.500 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.020 $1.250 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $0.30 $10.00 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1210 LMSYS Elo 1286 LMSYS Elo GPT-4o
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $35.81 / mo $1303.12 / mo Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (-97.3%)
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 128,000 tokens Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Speed (Throughput) 220 tokens/sec 85 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 Complex multi-step customer facing workflows, vision + JSON structured outputs Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite → Try GPT-4o → Open Full Simulator