GPT Image 1 Mini vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental

1. Cost-Efficient Image Generation

• A budget-friendly version of GPT Image 1 designed for high-volume or cost-sensitive workflows.
• Offers strong visual generation quality at significantly reduced per-image prices.

2. Natively Multimodal Architecture

• Accepts both text and image inputs, enabling:
  • Image-to-image transformations
  • Visual editing based on reference photos
  • Enhanced control via mixed inputs
• Outputs high-quality images aligned with the prompt or reference.

3. Flexible Resolution & Quality Options

• Supports three quality tiers (Low, Medium, High).
• Available in multiple resolutions:
  • 1024x1024
  • 1024x1536
  • 1536x1024
• Allows users to choose between affordability and visual detail.

4. Practical for Real-World Applications Ideal for:

• Marketing visuals
• UI/UX mockups
• Concept art
• Prototyping & brainstorming
• Lightweight creative tools within SaaS platforms

5. Broad API Integration Works across all major endpoints:

• Chat Completions
• Responses
• Realtime
• Assistants
• Image generation & image edits
• Batch and embedding pipelines for more complex workflows.

6. Streamlined Feature Set for Simplicity

• No streaming, function calling, structured output, or fine-tuning.
• Focused exclusively on reliable, easy-to-use image generation.

7. Snapshot Support for Consistency

• Supports stable snapshots so developers can lock behavior and ensure reproducible outputs across deployments.

1. State-of-the-art reasoning performance

• #1 on LMArena human preference leaderboard.
• Excels at advanced reasoning benchmarks like GPQA and AIME 2025.
• Achieves 18.8% on Humanity's Last Exam (no tools), representing frontier human-level reasoning.

2. New “thinking model” architecture

• Built with explicit reasoning steps internally before responding.
• Handles complex, multi-stage logic with higher accuracy and fewer hallucinations.

3. Elite science and mathematics capabilities

• Leads in math and science tasks across industry benchmarks.
• High performance without costly inference tricks like majority voting.

4. Exceptional coding abilities

• Major leap over Gemini 2.0 in coding performance.
• 63.8% on SWE-Bench Verified with custom agent setup.
• Strong at code transformation, debugging, and building agentic apps.
• Capable of generating full applications (e.g., a playable video game) from a single-line prompt.

5. Massive multimodal context

• Ships with a 1,000,000 token window (2M coming soon).
• Handles entire documents, datasets, video sequences, audio files, and large codebases.
• Maintains strong performance even at extreme context lengths.

6. Native multimodality across all inputs

• Understands and reasons over text, images, audio, video, and code.
• Designed for real-world, multi-source problem-solving and agent workflows.

7. Consistent high-quality outputs

• Improved post-training results in more accurate, coherent, and stylistically strong responses.
• Higher reliability across complex workloads.

8. Early availability for developers

• Available today in Google AI Studio for experimentation.
• Coming soon to Vertex AI with higher rate limits and production-ready access.