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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

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

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Vendorgooglegoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score53.566.5
Input Price$1.50/M$2.00/M
Output Price$9.00/M$12.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,53665,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio
Benchmark Scores
ai_index53.849.0
eqbench-74.3

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
SQL Generation 139 143
Code Review 142 150
Code Completion 119 120
Code Refactoring 144 153
Bug Fixing 146 154
Unit Test Generation 130 135
Code Documentation 134 139
Regex Writing 123 125
CI/CD Pipelines 126 131
Frontend Component Design 128 130
Data Analysis 132 135
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 139
ETL Scripting 135 142
JSON Extraction 121 121
Bulk Data Labeling 118 117
OCR / Document Parsing 133 135
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 135
Long-Document Summarization 145 154
Short-Form Summarization 116 117
Blog Post Writing 127 131

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

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