Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Luna.
GPT-5.6 Luna is 3.3x cheaper.

For a chatbot doing 100K requests a month with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each: $80.00 vs $262.50.

Google Gemini

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Input / 1M$0.75
Cached / 1M$0.075
Output / 1M$3.75
Context—
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$262.50

Source · Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna

Input / 1M$0.20
Cached / 1M$0.02
Output / 1M$1.20
Context—
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$80.00

Source · Oct 20, 2026

Price isn't everything: check quality on your own prompts. GPT-5.6 Luna wins on list price for this workload, but output-heavy jobs (long answers, agents, reasoning) shift the math toward whichever model has the lower output price, which here is GPT-5.6 Luna.

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