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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs xAI: Grok Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite xAI: Grok Latest
Vendorgoogle~x-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score34.25.8
Input Price$0.30/M$1.60/M
Output Price$2.50/M$4.80/M
Context Window1,048,576500,000
Max Output65,536450,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index36.611.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LitexAI: Grok Latest
SQL Generation 138 134
Code Review 139 134
Code Completion 132 118
Code Refactoring 141 137
Bug Fixing 143 138
Unit Test Generation 128 125
Code Documentation 134 131
Regex Writing 123 119
CI/CD Pipelines 124 121
Frontend Component Design 126 123
Data Analysis 129 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 133 129
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 132 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 131
Long-Document Summarization 143 139
Short-Form Summarization 125 115
Blog Post Writing 126 122

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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