vs
0:4
overall capability wins (1 ties across 5 scored). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning0:2
- Coding0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +28.4 on SciCode); Gemini 3.6 Flash allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K); Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is ~22.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3.6 Flash.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +28.4 on SciCode)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash allows ~8.0x more max output (66K vs 8K)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is ~22.9x 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 2.0 Flash-Lite
- $0.15
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is about 22.5x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Feb 5, 2025
Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
8K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.07
$1.50
Output $/1M
$0.30
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.13
$3
Speed
tok/s
200
180
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.22
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
53.5
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
3.4
40.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
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
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
77.5
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
25.0
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 2.0 Flash-Lite | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Feb 5, 2025 | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 8K | 66K | B +57K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.07 | $1.50 | A +$1.43 |
| Output $/1M | $0.30 | $7.50 | A +$7.20 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.13 | $3 | A +$2.87 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 200 | 180 | A +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.22 | A +0.07 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.5 | 92.8 | B +39.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.4 | 40.8 | B +37.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| 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 | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 77.5 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 25.0 | 53.4 | B +28.4 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 2.0 Flash-Lite
- Context
- 1M / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.07 / $0.30
- Speed
- 200 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cheapest Gemini 2.0 tier for high-volume multimodal classification and light assistants.
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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