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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-29.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	google	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	83.9	-
Input Price	$0.75/M	$0.12/M
Output Price	$3.75/M	$0.75/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	82.6	-
ai_index_agentic	63.9	-
ai_index_coding	100.0	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	169	133
Code Review	165	132
Code Completion	132	131
Code Refactoring	162	136
Bug Fixing	177	136
Unit Test Generation	153	124
Code Documentation	142	131
Regex Writing	135	119
CI/CD Pipelines	143	120
Frontend Component Design	145	122
Data Analysis	167	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	133
ETL Scripting	153	128
JSON Extraction	148	131
Bulk Data Labeling	134	129
OCR / Document Parsing	146	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	131
Long-Document Summarization	158	137
Short-Form Summarization	131	123
Blog Post Writing	139	121

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