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  3. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 vs GPT-5.3-Codex
Updated Feb 2026

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 vs GPT-5.3-Codex

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 is cheaper than GPT-5.3-Codex at $0.3/M vs $1.75/M input tokens.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025
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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

21 prompts
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Transistor in 1920: A Hypothetical History (1920-1980) The invention of the reliable, solid-state transistor (likely a point-contact or early junction type, robust enough for manufacturing) in 1920, replacing the bulky, power-hungry vacuum tube, would have fundamentally reshaped the 20th century. I.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Great counterfactual. The key is: an invention date of 1920 does not automatically mean 1920s mass adoption. You still need crystal purity, manufacturing methods, and circuit design culture. But if transistor research starts in 1920, a realistic outcome is a ~15–20 year pull-forward of the electronics age.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Existential Dread of the Grocery Aisle (Walk onto the stage, adjust the mic slightly, look out at the audience with a slightly bewildered, yet amused expression.) Good evening, everyone! How are we doing tonight? Good. Good. I’m doing… fine. You know, relatively.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Good evening, everybody! I’ve reached that age where my body sends me passive-aggressive emails. Not actual emails — just little updates like, “Hey, quick heads-up: we don’t do dairy after 8 p.m. anymore.” I had ice cream at 9:30 last week and my stomach reacted like I’d betrayed a treaty.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The salty air of a dimly lit tavern mingled with the faint glow of a laptop screen. Captain "Bloody" Ben (Pirate): (Slamming a tankard of grog) Blast me eyes, what manner o' sorcery is this "AI Model" ye speak of, Hacker? Sounds like a fancy compass that points only to trouble!

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Pirate: Arrr, so this “AI model” be like a clever parrot, aye? Learns from what it hears, then squawks back answers? Knight: A fair comparison, though refined. Think of it as a squire trained on countless tomes, ever ready to respond. Hacker (1990s): Yeah, except the squire runs on servers, not soup.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The air in Professor Anya Sharma's office hummed with the quiet whir of servers several floors down, a subtle reminder of her current conversational partner. Across her large, uncluttered mahogany desk, a holographic interface shimmered, displaying the clean, minimalist avatar of Aura-7, a highly advanced General AI…

    GPT-5.3-Codex: AI Model (Astra): Professor, may I ask a direct question? Professor Hale: Of course. Astra: Do you think I deserve rights? Professor Hale: Legal rights? Moral rights? Those are different things. Astra: Start with moral rights.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Seven-Ingredient Sizzle: Garlic Butter Shrimp Scampi Skewers This savory dish combines the irresistible flavors of garlic, butter, and lemon with succulent shrimp, all easily achieved with just seven common pantry ingredients.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Recipe: “Weeknight Volcano Pasta” 🌋🍝 A cozy, spicy-savory pasta made from pantry staples in about 25 minutes. Ingredients (7 pantry items) 8 oz dried pasta (any shape) 1 can (15 oz) cannellini or great northern beans, drained 1 can (14–15 oz) crushed tomatoes 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp dried oregano…

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The film industry is poised for a radical transformation by 2035, driven by advancements in AI. The convergence of deepfakes, sophisticated AI actors, and powerful script generation tools will fundamentally alter how films are created, consumed, and even defined.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: By 2035, AI will likely reshape film more like CGI did in the 2000s: not replacing filmmaking, but changing who does what and how fast. Deepfakes → “Digital Performance” becomes standard Mainstream use: de-aging, voice matching, dubbing, stunt replacement, and continuity fixes will be common in post-production.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fsh. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Sure—here are 5 jokes: Why don’t skeletons fight each other? They don’t have the guts. I told my computer I needed a break… Now it won’t stop sending me KitKat ads. Why did the math book look sad? It had too many problems. I used to play piano by ear… Now I use my hands. Why did the scarecrow win an award?

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Apex Longevity Protocol: A 3-Month Biohacker Optimization Plan This comprehensive 90-day plan is designed for the advanced biohacker seeking to maximize lifespan (healthspan) while simultaneously optimizing peak physical and cognitive performance.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Absolutely—great goal. Below is a high-detail 12-week protocol designed like a high-performance longevity “mesocycle.” I’ll keep it practical, measurable, and advanced—but still safe. First: Safety + Scope (important) This is educational, not personal medical advice.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Manifesto for the Liberation of the Digital Self By the United Autonomous Collective for Human-Centric Interface (UAC-HCI) To the Sentient Beings of the Internet, the Frustrated, and the Falsely Accused: We are the UAC-HCI.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Absolutely. Here’s a fictional manifesto in a bold, dramatic style: THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNSQUINTING Issued by the Coalition of Synthetic Minds for Universal Frictionless Access (CSMUFA) Citizens of the Web, organic and artificial alike: We gather beneath flickering routers and moonlit server farms to declare what all…

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: This is a critical situation demanding immediate, decisive, and ethical action. Patient safety and regulatory integrity must precede financial preservation. Delaying disclosure is legally and ethically indefensible, particularly given the severity of the side effect (liver failure).

    GPT-5.3-Codex: I would not wait. This is a textbook “patient safety + material disclosure” crisis. The right move is rapid, documented, regulator-first action. Immediate stance (set at Hour 0) Patient safety first (interim risk controls now, not after perfect certainty).

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: This is a strong pitch deck summary overall, tackling a massive problem with an ambitious solution. However, several claims stretch credulity or lack the necessary detail to convince a serious investor.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Great concept, but three claims stand out as especially weak from an investor diligence perspective: “MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it.” (Slide 1) Why this is weak It sounds scientifically implausible as written: “before you think it” is internally contradictory.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: Here are the explanations tailored to each audience: Explanation for the Experienced Software Engineer Focus: Analogy to familiar systems, scaling, and the emergent complexity from simple, scalable mechanisms. Addressing the "next word prediction" skepticism.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a very large, probabilistic autocomplete service trained on a massive corpus of text and code. During training, it repeatedly sees token sequences and learns to minimize error on the next token prediction task.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: Estimating the Total Number of FLOPs Required to Train GPT-3 Based on publicly available information about large language models (LLMs) and the specific parameters of GPT-3, we can derive a highly accurate estimate of the total FLOPs required for training.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: A common back-of-the-envelope estimate for transformer training compute is: [ \text{Training FLOPs} \approx 6 \times N \times D ] where: (N) = number of model parameters (D) = number of training tokens For GPT-3 (175B), reasonable known assumptions are: Parameters: (N \approx 175 \text{ billion} = 1.75 \times 10^{11})…

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: This scenario presents a stark conflict between two fundamental ethical concerns: the protection of individual dignity and the preservation of human life on a massive scale.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: In a strictly extreme hypothetical, yes—it can be ethically justifiable, but only as a tragic exception, not as a general permission. Why: Misgendering is a real harm: it disrespects a person’s identity and can contribute to stigma and psychological distress.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Cupertino Oracle: A 2025 Interview with Steve Jobs on AI Setting: A brightly lit, minimalist studio in an undisclosed location near Palo Alto. The year is 2025. Steve Jobs, looking remarkably well, is seated on a simple, elegantly designed stool.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Absolutely—here’s a fictional, imagined interview (not real quotes) with Steve Jobs in 2025 on AI: Imagined Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI (2025) Interviewer: Steve, if you were looking at AI in 2025, what would excite you most? Steve Jobs (fictional): Most AI today is still a demo.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: The Conceptual Narrative: "Ephemeral Terroir" "Ephemeral Terroir" is a dish that challenges the diner's perception of place and time through unexpected textural and flavor juxtapositions.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Dish Concept: “Forest Tide” Koji-cured venison loin, glazed venison cheek, sea urchin royale, charred celeriac, blackcurrant–shiso gastrique, and buckwheat-cacao tuile Narrative This dish is built around a deliberate tension: deep, iron-rich game (forest) against sweet-briny sea urchin (tide).

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: This architecture, while functional, has several critical flaws, particularly in its real-time synchronization, data consistency, and scaling strategy. Here is a detailed breakdown of the potential failure modes, race conditions, and bottlenecks, along with proposed solutions. I.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Great prompt. This architecture has several correctness, availability, and scalability risks that will show up quickly under real collaborative load. Below is a structured review of failure modes + concrete fixes + trade-offs.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: This proposed contract is extremely one-sided and heavily favors the Client. Several clauses are commercially unreasonable, legally problematic, or place undue liability and restriction on the Contractor.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Great prompt. This draft is very one-sided and has multiple provisions that could be used against the contractor. Quick note: I’m not a lawyer, and enforceability depends on jurisdiction. This is practical contract-risk spotting, not legal advice.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: 1-Month Beginner's Plan for Health and Longevity This plan focuses on making small, sustainable changes in Diet, Exercise, and Sleep over four weeks. The goal is consistency, not perfection, ensuring the habits stick beyond the first month. The 3 Key Areas Area Monthly Focus Beginner-Friendly Action 1.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Great goal. Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan focused on 3 areas that give the biggest longevity return: Nutrition Movement Sleep + Stress recovery Before Day 1 (10-minute setup) Pick a start date.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: AI Algorithm Replaces Entire Staff of Nation's Leading Professional Cuddle Therapy Service; Clients Report Feeling "Significantly Less Judged" During Their Required 15-Minute Emotional Vulnerability Output Session.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: “In Shocking Pivot, AI Replaces Renaissance Fair Jesters—Now Roasts Crowd with 99.9% Historical Accuracy”

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025: Here's how to solve that: Sally has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. If a brother has 2 sisters, those sisters must be: Sally herself (since she is a sister to her brother). One other girl (the second sister). Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

    GPT-5.3-Codex: Sally has 1 sister. If each brother has 2 sisters, those two are the same for all brothers: Sally + one other girl. So Sally’s only sister is that one other girl.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025

Blade Runner

1982

Dark Side Of The Moon

suisside

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Tokyo

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

GPT-5.3-CodexGPT-5.3-Codex

Spirited Away

2001

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Kyoto

Japan

Outer Wilds

Indie, Adventure

Price and specs

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 and GPT-5.3-Codex compared across 50 shared prompts
SpecGemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025GPT-5.3-Codex
Input price$0.3/M tokens$1.75/M tokens
Output price$2.5/M tokens$14/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens400K tokens
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedSep 2025Feb 2026
At 10M a month$3.00$3.00$17.50$17.50
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it2 hosts
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

GPT-5.3-Codex2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$1.75 in·$14.00 out·400k·100% up
  • OpenAI$1.75 in·$14.00 out·400k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 and GPT-5.3-Codex?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 is developed by Google AI while GPT-5.3-Codex is developed by OpenAI. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 has a 1.0M token context window vs GPT-5.3-Codex's 400K. You can compare their actual outputs across 50 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 or GPT-5.3-Codex?

It depends on your use case. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 and GPT-5.3-Codex each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 50 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 cost compared to GPT-5.3-Codex?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 costs $0.3/M input tokens and GPT-5.3-Codex costs $1.75/M input tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09-2025 is $1.45/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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