vs
0:5
overall capability wins (0 ties across 5 scored). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning0:2
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +41.7 on SciCode); Gemini 3.6 Flash offers ~30.5x larger context (1M vs 33K); Gemini 3.6 Flash allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K).
- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +41.7 on SciCode)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash offers ~30.5x larger context (1M vs 33K)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K)
- Gemini 1.0 Pro is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3.6 Flash
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 1.0 Pro
- $0.88
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
Gemini 1.0 Pro is about 3.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Dec 6, 2023
Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Modalities
text → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
33K
1M
Max output
8K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.50
$1.50
Output $/1M
$1.50
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.75
$3
Speed
tok/s
80
180
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.22
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
43.1
—
GPQA Diamond
27.7
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
40.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
40.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
50.0
AA-LCR v1.1
—
80.0
CritPt
—
10.6
MMMU-Pro
—
83.2
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
11.6
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
77.5
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
11.7
53.4
CursorBench
—
53.5
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
47.0
WebDev Arena
—
1,537
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,480
| Metric | Gemini 1.0 Pro | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 6, 2023 | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 33K | 1M | B +967K |
| Max output | 8K | 66K | B +57K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.50 | $1.50 | A +$1 |
| Output $/1M | $1.50 | $7.50 | A +$6 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.75 | $3 | A +$2.25 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 80 | 180 | B +100 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.22 | B +0.18 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 43.1 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.7 | 92.8 | B +65.1 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 40.8 | B +36.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 40.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 50.0 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 80.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 10.6 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 83.2 | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 11.6 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 77.5 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 11.7 | 53.4 | B +41.7 pts |
| CursorBench | — | 53.5 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 47.0 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,537 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,480 | — |
Gemini 1.0 Pro
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.50 / $1.50
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
First Gemini API generation (gemini-1.0-pro) — 32K text model before the 1.5 long-context multimodal line.
Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.50 / $7.50
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.22s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Newest Flash model powering the free Gemini app - cheaper output tokens and strong price/performance.
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