GPT-4o vs Gemini 2.0 Flash

Full multimodal workhorse comparison: OpenAI GPT-4o vs Google Gemini 2.0 Flash — API price per million tokens, ultra-long context, vision understanding, and audio streaming latency — with enterprise selection guidance that balances performance and long-term call cost.

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One Base URL and API key — switch models with the model parameter only:

import os
from openai import OpenAI

# One CallAI key — route freely between GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash
client = OpenAI(
    api_key="sk-live-your-callai-key",
    base_url="https://api.callaiapi.com/v1"
)

def query_model(model_id: str, prompt: str):
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model=model_id,
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
        stream=True
    )
    for chunk in response:
        print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="", flush=True)
    print("\n" + "="*40 + "\n")

# Model 1: GPT-4o
print(">>> Output from: GPT-4o")
query_model("gpt-4o", "Briefly analyze the trade-offs of this architecture")

# Model 2: Gemini 2.0 Flash
print(">>> Output from: Gemini 2.0 Flash")
query_model("gemini-2.0-flash", "Briefly analyze the trade-offs of this architecture")

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