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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	google	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	83.9	62.4
Input Price	$1.50/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$7.50/M	$1.25/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	60.2
ai_index_agentic	63.9	44.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	169	161
Code Review	165	156
Code Completion	119	132
Code Refactoring	162	156
Bug Fixing	177	166
Unit Test Generation	153	146
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	134	131
CI/CD Pipelines	143	137
Frontend Component Design	145	139
Data Analysis	167	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	149
ETL Scripting	153	146
JSON Extraction	139	145
Bulk Data Labeling	124	134
OCR / Document Parsing	146	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	143
Long-Document Summarization	158	153
Short-Form Summarization	122	129
Blog Post Writing	138	135

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