Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3 Pro
- Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1480).
- On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 and Gemini 3 Pro wins 1 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).
LatestGemini 3.6 Flash 1480Gemini 3 Pro 1480
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Models (2/6)
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- Gemini 3 Pro
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| The model | ||
| Lab | ||
| Released | 2026-07-21 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Input, per 1M tokens | $0.75 | — |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $3.75 | — |
| LMArena, people’s votes | ||
| LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer | 1480#20 of 351 | 1480#21 of 351 |
| LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one | 1538#49 of 124 | 1440#80 of 124 |
| LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image | 1299#20 of 146 | 1305#16 of 146 |
| LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code | 1491#34 of 346 | 1481#55 of 346 |
| LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts | 1507#11 of 339 | 1476#38 of 339 |
| LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing | 1466#21 of 349 | 1483#13 of 349 |
| LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts | 1486#25 of 351 | 1480#39 of 351 |
| LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow | 1467#31 of 351 | 1458#43 of 351 |
| Vals AI, coding | ||
| SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects | 79.60%#25 of 85 | 76.40%#37 of 85 |
| Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works | 64.00%#50 of 115 | 14.30%#91 of 115 |
| LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination | 88.08%#8 of 143 | 86.41%#23 of 143 |
| Vals AI, finance | ||
| Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions | 18.04%#53 of 76 | — |
| Vals AI, law | ||
| Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research | 25.00%#60 of 85 | — |
| Vals AI, medicine | ||
| MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes | 53.15%#11 of 107 | 52.20%#14 of 107 |
| MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias | — | 96.03%#8 of 92 |
| Vals AI, reasoning | ||
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not | 93.43%#7 of 138 | 91.67%#19 of 138 |
| MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering | 89.28%#13 of 138 | 90.10%#7 of 138 |
| AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad | — | 96.68%#4 of 96 |
| MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text | 88.38%#7 of 93 | 87.51%#14 of 93 |
| Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal | 4.29%#28 of 42 | — |
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Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Gemini 3 Pro?
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1480). On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 6 and Gemini 3 Pro wins 1 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, LiveCodeBench).
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