Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | x-ai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.75/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $3.75/M | $2.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 256,000 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 230,400 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Grok Build 0.1 costs $1.50 and Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.69, so Grok Build 0.1 is slightly cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.6 Flash reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 384 pages for Grok Build 0.1.
Only Gemini 3.6 Flash offers audio input and video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Grok Build 0.1 on 1 (Regex Writing).
Gemini 3.6 Flash was released in July 2026 and Grok Build 0.1 in May 2026.
Pick Gemini 3.6 Flash if you need long documents, audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Grok Build 0.1 if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash | SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 130 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 116 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 127 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 123 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 128 | 121 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 128 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 128 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 118 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →