vs
4:1
overall capability wins (2 ties across 7 scored). Gemini 3.6 Flash leads overall.
- Reasoning2:0
- Coding2:0
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
Verdict
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +98.2 on WebDev Elo); Gemini 3 Pro ranks higher on LMArena (+6 Elo); Gemini 3.6 Flash is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3 Pro.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash leads coding (widest gap: +98.2 on WebDev Elo)
- Gemini 3 Pro ranks higher on LMArena (+6 Elo)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Gemini 3 Pro
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- $3.38
- Gemini 3 Pro
- $5
Gemini 3.6 Flash is about 1.5x 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
Nov 18, 2025
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
$2
Output $/1M
$7.50
$12
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$4.50
Speed
tok/s
180
120
TTFT (s)
0.22
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
92.8
91.9
Humanity's Last Exam
40.8
37.5
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
—
69.6
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
68.7
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
77.5
73.9
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
53.4
—
CursorBench
53.5
—
SWE-Rebench
—
50.7
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
47.0
—
WebDev Arena
1,537
1,439
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,480
1,486
| Metric | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3 Pro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemini | Gemini | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 21, 2026 | Nov 18, 2025 | — |
| 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 | $2 | A +$0.50 |
| Output $/1M | $7.50 | $12 | A +$4.50 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $4.50 | A +$1.50 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 120 | A +60 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.22 | 0.45 | A +0.23 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 92.8 | 91.9 | A +0.9 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.8 | 37.5 | A +3.3 pts |
| 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 | — | 69.6 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.7 | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 77.5 | 73.9 | A +3.6 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 53.4 | — | — |
| CursorBench | 53.5 | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 50.7 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 47.0 | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,537 | 1,439 | A +98 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,480 | 1,486 | B +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 Pro
- Context
- 1M / 66K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2 / $12
- Speed
- 120 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, video → text
- License
- Proprietary
Gemini 3 Pro preview (Nov 2025); superseded by Gemini 3.1 Pro but still listed in deprecation docs.
Benchmark charts
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