Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 3.6 Flash are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1480).
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 4 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 (Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: LiveCodeBench, MedCode, GPQA Diamond).
LMArena text rating over time
14601473148514981510Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestGemini 3.1 Pro Preview 1480Gemini 3.6 Flash 1480

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Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
BenchmarkGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGemini 3.6 Flash
The model
LabGoogleGoogle
Released2026-02-192026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$2$0.75
Output, per 1M tokens$12$3.75
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1480#19 of 3511480#20 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1447#78 of 1241538#49 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1296#22 of 1461299#20 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1484#48 of 3461491#34 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1486#28 of 3391507#11 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1482#14 of 3491466#21 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1485#30 of 3511486#25 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1466#35 of 3511467#31 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal2.52%#49 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects78.80%#28 of 8579.60%#25 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works32.03%#72 of 11564.00%#50 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination88.48%#6 of 14388.08%#8 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions9.29%#62 of 7618.04%#53 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research20.67%#62 of 8525.00%#60 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes59.06%#2 of 10753.15%#11 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias96.37%#3 of 92—
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not95.45%#1 of 13893.43%#7 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering90.99%#4 of 13889.28%#13 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad98.13%#1 of 96—
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.21%#10 of 9388.38%#7 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal1.43%#35 of 424.29%#28 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and Gemini 3.6 Flash are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1480). Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 4 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 (Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: LiveCodeBench, MedCode, GPQA Diamond).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

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