Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini vs Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
Google: Gemma 3 12B (free) is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini | Google: Gemma 3 12B (free) |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | openai | |
| Context Window | 400,000 | 32,768 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $2.50 | $0.0000 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $2.00 | $0.0000 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $420 | $0.00 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| MMLU Score | N/A | N/A |
Price History
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$2.50
Current Output / 1M
$2.00
Price History
Google: Gemma 3 12B (free) Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$0.000000
Current Output / 1M
$0.000000
Cost Calculator
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OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini
$420
per month
Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)
$0.00
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
Google: Gemma 3 12B (free) is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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