vs
7:6
overall capability wins (2 ties across 15 scored). Gemini 3.5 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning4:2
- Coding2:3
- Arena0:1
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing0:2
- Speed0:1
Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +45.0 on WebDev Elo); Gemini 3.5 Flash edges reasoning & knowledge.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +45.0 on WebDev Elo)
- Gemini 3.5 Flash edges reasoning & knowledge
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
- $3.75
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
Gemini 3.6 Flash is about 1.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemini
Gemini
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
May 12, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Modalities
text, image, audio, video → text
text, image, audio, video → text
Specs
Context window
1M
1M
Max output
66K
66K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$1.50
$1.50
Output $/1M
$9
$7.50
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.38
$3
Speed
tok/s
160
180
TTFT (s)
0.22
0.22
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
92.2
92.8
Humanity's Last Exam
42.7
40.8
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
51.4
50.0
AA-LCR v1.1
73.3
80.0
CritPt
13.1
10.6
MMMU-Pro
84.3
83.2
IFBench
76.3
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
78.7
77.5
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
53.9
53.4
CursorBench
48.8
53.5
SWE-Rebench
49.5
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
36.0
47.0
WebDev Arena
1,492
1,537
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,478
1,480
| Metric | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | May 12, 2026 | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | — | ||
| Modalities | text, image, audio, video → text | text, image, audio, video → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 1M | tie |
| Max output | 66K | 66K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $1.50 | $1.50 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $9 | $7.50 | B +$1.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.38 | $3 | B +$0.38 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 160 | 180 | B +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.22 | 0.22 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.2 | 92.8 | B +0.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 42.7 | 40.8 | A +1.9 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 51.4 | 50.0 | A +1.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 73.3 | 80.0 | B +6.7 pts |
| CritPt | 13.1 | 10.6 | A +2.5 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 84.3 | 83.2 | A +1.1 pts |
| IFBench | 76.3 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.7 | 77.5 | A +1.2 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 53.9 | 53.4 | A +0.5 pts |
| CursorBench | 48.8 | 53.5 | B +4.7 pts |
| SWE-Rebench | 49.5 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 36.0 | 47.0 | B +11.0 pts |
| WebDev Arena | 1,492 | 1,537 | B +45 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,478 | 1,480 | B +2 Elo |
Gemini 3.5 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.50 / $9
- Speed
- 160 tok/s · 0.22s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mid-2026 Gemini Flash GA SKU — multimodal million-token context between 3 Flash and 3.6 Flash.
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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