vs
4:7
overall capability wins (1 ties across 12 scored). Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads overall.
- Reasoning3:2
- Coding1:2
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +220.9 on WebDev Elo); Gemini 2.5 Pro edges reasoning & knowledge; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+10 Elo).
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding (widest gap: +220.9 on WebDev Elo)
- Gemini 2.5 Pro edges reasoning & knowledge
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ranks higher on LMArena (+10 Elo)
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers larger context (1.0M vs 1M)
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 2.5 Pro
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 2.5 Pro
- $3.75
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- $0.93
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is about 4.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 25, 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
$1.25
$0.30
Output $/1M
$10
$2.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.44
$0.85
Speed
tok/s
100
220
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.18
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
86.2
—
GPQA Diamond
84.4
83.8
Humanity's Last Exam
22.5
18.8
AIME 2025
87.7
—
MATH-500
96.7
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
39.1
29.5
AA-LCR v1.1
69.0
76.0
CritPt
2.6
—
MMMU-Pro
74.9
79.0
IFBench
48.7
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
53.6
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
80.1
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
28.5
53.6
Aider Polyglot
79.1
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
46.3
41.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
23.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,226
1,447
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,446
1,456
| Metric | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 25, 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 | $1.25 | $0.30 | B +$0.95 |
| Output $/1M | $10 | $2.50 | B +$7.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.44 | $0.85 | B +$2.59 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 100 | 220 | B +120 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.18 | B +0.27 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 86.2 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 84.4 | 83.8 | A +0.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 22.5 | 18.8 | A +3.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 87.7 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 96.7 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 39.1 | 29.5 | A +9.6 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 69.0 | 76.0 | B +7.0 pts |
| CritPt | 2.6 | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.9 | 79.0 | B +4.1 pts |
| IFBench | 48.7 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | 53.6 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 80.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 28.5 | 53.6 | B +25.1 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 46.3 | 41.3 | A +5.0 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 23.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,226 | 1,447 | B +221 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,446 | 1,456 | B +10 Elo |
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.25 / $10
- Speed
- 100 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Previous-gen Google Pro model; still a capable long-context multimodal option at competitive rates.
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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