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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 2026-09-23.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	google	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	56.1	34.2
Input Price	$0.75/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$3.75/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	56.1	36.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	140	138
Code Review	142	139
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	145	141
Bug Fixing	146	143
Unit Test Generation	130	128
Code Documentation	136	135
Regex Writing	124	123
CI/CD Pipelines	126	124
Frontend Component Design	128	126
Data Analysis	132	129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	135	135
ETL Scripting	135	133
JSON Extraction	131	131
Bulk Data Labeling	128	129
OCR / Document Parsing	133	132
Table Extraction from PDFs	133	132
Long-Document Summarization	146	143
Short-Form Summarization	125	125
Blog Post Writing	128	126

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