vs
0:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 2 scored). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is ~17.1x 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 Thinking
- $0.20
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is about 16.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Dec 19, 2024
Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
66K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$1.50
Output $/1M
$0.40
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.18
$3
Speed
tok/s
90
180
TTFT (s)
1.5
0.22
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
—
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
—
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 Thinking | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Dec 19, 2024 | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 66K | 66K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $1.50 | A +$1.40 |
| Output $/1M | $0.40 | $7.50 | A +$7.10 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.18 | $3 | A +$2.83 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 180 | B +90 |
| TTFT (s) | 1.5 | 0.22 | B +1.28 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.8 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 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 | — | 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 | — |
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.40
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 1.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Experimental thinking variant of 2.0 Flash with visible intermediate reasoning for STEM tasks.
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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