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Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-28.

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, both cost $1.69 at current list prices.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

On our blended benchmark score Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 65.5 to 56.1.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Gemini 3.7 Flash was released in August 2026 and Gemini 3.6 Flash in July 2026.

Pick Gemini 3.7 Flash if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Task	Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
SQL Generation	141	140
Code Review	144	142
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	146	145
Bug Fixing	148	146
Unit Test Generation	131	130
Code Documentation	136	136
Regex Writing	125	124
CI/CD Pipelines	127	126
Frontend Component Design	129	128
Data Analysis	133	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	136	135
ETL Scripting	137	135
OCR / Document Parsing	134	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	134	133
Long-Document Summarization	147	146
Short-Form Summarization	126	125
Blog Post Writing	129	128

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