Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

  • Gemini 3.7 Flash rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1490 against 1480.
  • They cost about the same: $0.75 / $3.75 and $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens.
  • On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.7 Flash wins 10 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 0.
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490Jul 21Aug 13Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22
LatestGemini 3.6 Flash 1480

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
BenchmarkGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.6 Flash
The model
LabGoogleGoogle
Released2026-08-132026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.75$0.75
Output, per 1M tokens$3.75$3.75
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1490#14 of 3511480#20 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1590#33 of 1241538#49 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1314#8 of 1461299#20 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1501#24 of 3461491#34 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1510#10 of 3391507#11 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1489#9 of 3491466#21 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1497#15 of 3511486#25 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1486#15 of 3511467#31 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal12.12%#37 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects80.80%#22 of 8579.60%#25 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works70.39%#43 of 11564.00%#50 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination88.65%#5 of 14388.08%#8 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions22.80%#44 of 7618.04%#53 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research34.62%#45 of 8525.00%#60 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.39%#9 of 10753.15%#11 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.94%#5 of 13893.43%#7 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering90.12%#6 of 13889.28%#13 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.96%#5 of 9388.38%#7 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal7.14%#20 of 424.29%#28 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.7 Flash rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1490 against 1480. They cost about the same: $0.75 / $3.75 and $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens. On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.7 Flash wins 10 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 0.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

They cost about the same: $0.75 / $3.75 and $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens.

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