vs
8:1
overall capability wins (2 ties across 11 scored). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning5:1
- Coding1:0
- Arena1:0
- Tool use1:0
- Pricing2:0
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +99.1 on WebDev Elo); Gemini 3.6 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+6 Elo).
- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +99.1 on WebDev Elo)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash ranks higher on LMArena (+6 Elo)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
- Gemini 3 Flash
- $3.75
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
Jul 21, 2026
May 19, 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
$7.50
$9
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$3.38
Speed
tok/s
180
200
TTFT (s)
0.22
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
92.8
89.8
Humanity's Last Exam
40.8
36.6
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
50.0
53.4
AA-LCR v1.1
80.0
78.0
CritPt
10.6
8.6
MMMU-Pro
83.2
79.9
IFBench
—
78.0
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
34.6
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
72.7
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
1,438
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,480
1,474
| Metric | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3 Flash | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 21, 2026 | May 19, 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 | $7.50 | $9 | A +$1.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $3.38 | A +$0.38 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 200 | B +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.22 | 0.2 | B +0.02 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.8 | 89.8 | A +3.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.8 | 36.6 | A +4.2 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 50.0 | 53.4 | B +3.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 80.0 | 78.0 | A +2.0 pts |
| CritPt | 10.6 | 8.6 | A +2.0 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.2 | 79.9 | A +3.3 pts |
| IFBench | — | 78.0 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 34.6 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 72.7 | — |
| 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 | 1,438 | A +99 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,480 | 1,474 | A +6 Elo |
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.
Gemini 3 Flash
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.50 / $9
- Speed
- 200 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Google I/O 2026 Flash flagship — GA at $1.50/$9 with strong agentic price/performance.
Benchmark charts
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