vs
0:8
overall capability wins (1 ties across 9 scored). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads overall.
- Reasoning0:5
- Coding0:1
- Arena0:1
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +1.9 on SciCode); Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+46 Elo); Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M).
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +1.9 on SciCode)
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+46 Elo)
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- $0.93
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- $0.93
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Apr 17, 2025
Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Modalities
text, image, audio, video → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1.0M
Max output
66K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$0.30
Output $/1M
$2.50
$2.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.85
$0.85
Speed
tok/s
220
220
TTFT (s)
0.18
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
79.0
83.8
Humanity's Last Exam
12.1
18.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
26.0
29.5
AA-LCR v1.1
65.3
76.0
CritPt
1.1
—
MMMU-Pro
69.1
79.0
IFBench
50.3
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
28.7
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
75.1
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
53.6
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
39.4
41.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
19.9
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,447
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,410
1,456
| Metric | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Apr 17, 2025 | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image, audio, video → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1.0M | B +49K |
| Max output | 66K | 66K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $0.30 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | $2.50 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.85 | $0.85 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 220 | 220 | tie |
| TTFT (s) | 0.18 | 0.18 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.0 | 83.8 | B +4.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1 | 18.8 | B +6.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 26.0 | 29.5 | B +3.5 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 65.3 | 76.0 | B +10.7 pts |
| CritPt | 1.1 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 69.1 | 79.0 | B +9.9 pts |
| IFBench | 50.3 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 28.7 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 75.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 53.6 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 39.4 | 41.3 | B +1.9 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 19.9 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,447 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,410 | 1,456 | B +46 Elo |
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $2.50
- Speed
- 220 tok/s · 0.18s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Legacy Flash workhorse - very cheap and fast for bulk multimodal processing.
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Context
- 1.0M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $2.50
- Speed
- 220 tok/s · 0.18s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
GA cost-efficient Flash-Lite for high-volume agentic subtasks, translation, and simple data processing.
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