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Gemini 3.5 Flash

Reasoning effort

Gemini 3.5 Flash is a Google proprietary reasoning model, released 19 May 2026. Its best configuration (high reasoning effort) ranks #70 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 63.1 ±2.8, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 143 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in instruction following (74) and lowest in maths (58). At $3.38 per million tokens blended it is pricier than most ranked models. Output speed of 222 tokens per second puts it in the fastest quarter, with a first answer in 14.3 s. It has been measured at 5 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 22 Oct 2026.

Blended price
$3.38/M
$1.50 in · $9.00 out
Output speed
222 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
14 s
first token 1.62 s
Context
1.0M
Full answer
17 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
$3.69
one full Intelligence Index run
Released
19 May 2026
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index63
  2. Reasoning61
  3. Coding60
  4. Agents & tools63
  5. Maths58
  6. Knowledge65
  7. Instruction following74
  8. Human preference67
  9. Multimodal67
  10. Long context62
  11. Composite66

Versions

Google has shipped 12 models under this name. Each is ranked on its own results; a newer version often has fewer results so far, which holds its index nearer the average until more arrive.

ModelReleasedIndexRank
Gemini 3.8 Flashhigh2 Sept 202664.4#50
Gemini 3.7 Flashhigh13 Aug 202663.5#64
Gemini 3.6 Flashhigh21 Jul 202662.0#89
Gemini 3.5 Flashhighthis page19 May 202663.1#70
Gemini 3 Flashthinking17 Dec 202559.1#138
Gemini 2.5 Flash 09 2025thinking25 Sept 202551.1#351
Gemini 2.5 Flash17 Apr 202552.7#306
Gemini 2.0 Flash5 Feb 202543.2#574
Gemini 1.5 Flash 00224 Sept 202438.3#716
Gemini 1.5 Flash 00123 May 2024––
Gemini 1.5 Flash14 May 202444.3#541
Gemini Flash 2.0–––

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
minimal56.4#205195 tok/s0.83 s$0.0033Agents & tools 74 · Composite 56 · Instruction following 49 · Knowledge 62 · Long context 55 · Maths 58 · Multimodal 63 · Reasoning 47
low––120 tok/s1.62 s$0.0033Maths 62 · Reasoning 64
medium62.8#77217 tok/s13 s$0.0033Agents & tools 68 · Coding 57 · Composite 67 · Human preference 67 · Instruction following 73 · Knowledge 71 · Long context 62 · Maths 66 · Multimodal 66 · Reasoning 61
highbest63.1#70222 tok/s14 s$0.0033Agents & tools 63 · Coding 60 · Composite 66 · Human preference 67 · Instruction following 74 · Knowledge 65 · Long context 62 · Maths 58 · Multimodal 67 · Reasoning 61
not stated49.1#407120 tok/s1.62 s$0.0033Agents & tools 32 · Human preference 33 · Maths 58 · Reasoning 72

How its index has moved

8 Sept 2026 to 23 Oct 2026
465767
  • high
  • medium
  • minimal
  • not stated

The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarkminimallowmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
GPQA Diamond86.4%#7888.9%#55–92.8%#24–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
SimpleBencheffort not stated––––76.7%#6SimpleBench
Arena Hard Prompts––1495#411495#43–Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 1.0 Reasoningnot in index–––82.0%#48–LiveBench
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index82.8%#166–92.1%#3992.2%#38–Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index24.1%#189–41.3%#7842.7%#65–Artificial Analysis
GPQA Diamond (Vals)not in index–––92.7%#14–Vals AI
EnigmaEval–––25.4%#4–Scale AI SEAL
ARC-AGI-148.8%#180––92.5%#55–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-28.9%#163––72.1%#55–ARC Prize
CritPt1.4%#211–10.9%#11513.1%#103–Artificial Analysis
Chess Puzzlesnot in index27.0%#7242.0%#36–45.0%#29–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Mystery Game Puzzlesnot in index–28.0%#39–32.0%#30–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LMCAnot in index–––47.1%#80–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DTBenchnot in index–––94.7%#52–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ForecastBenchnot in indexeffort not stated––––64.3%#28ForecastBench

Coding

BenchmarkmediumhighSourceTrend
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)–79.3%#3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
SciCode–53.9%#69SciCode
WeirdML–62.6%#44WeirdML
Arena Coding1506#661508#62Arena (LMArena)
Arena WebDev1491#611499#59Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 1.0 Codingnot in index–78.2%#32LiveBench
SciCode (AA)not in index–53.9%#73Artificial Analysis
LiveCodeBench–87.6%#12Vals AI
SWE-bench (Vals)not in index–78.8%#28Vals AI
Code Migrationnot in index–26.8%#45Vals AI
ProgramBenchnot in index–0.0%#32Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench v1.1not in index–48.7%#61Vals AI
Surface Evolver Benchnot in index58.1%#14–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DeepSWE v1.1not in index37.4%#5836.1%#60Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ALE-Benchnot in index–911.0#64Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index–6.6%#98Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)not in index–78.7%#49Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarkminimalmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
APEX-Agentseffort not stated–––27.5%#50Mercor
LiveBench Agentic Codingnot in index––49.0%#46–LiveBench
Terminal-Bench Hard46.2%#3039.4%#5740.9%#53–Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index58.8%#18395.6%#1995.3%#23–Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)––74.2%#20–Vals AI
MCP Atlas––83.6%#6–Scale AI SEAL
HiL-Bencheffort not stated–––27.7%#25Scale AI SEAL
τ³-Banking (AA)––32.2%#58–Artificial Analysis
ITBench SRE (AA)not in index––40.4%#17–Artificial Analysis
Analyst Agent (AA)not in index––45.0%#17–Artificial Analysis
APEX-Agents (AA)not in index––47.0%#1–Artificial Analysis
Finance Agent v2not in index––57.9%#14–Vals AI
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1not in index––2.5%#45–Vals AI
Legal Research Benchnot in index––30.8%#47–Vals AI
SkillsBenchnot in index––52.7%#18–Vals AI
Tax Agent Benchnot in index––21.6%#44–Vals AI
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)not in index––67.4%#4–Vals AI
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)not in index––6.1%#42–Vals AI
Terminal-Bench Sciencenot in index––5.7%#21–Vals AI
Web Search Indexnot in index––37.0%#8–Vals AI
GBAEvalnot in indexeffort not stated–––6.7%#14Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Vending-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––5396.4#28Andon Labs
AutomationBenchnot in index––42.1%#94–Artificial Analysis
GDP.pdf (AA)not in index––19.8%#67–Artificial Analysis
EnterpriseOps-Gymnot in index––50.1%#3–Artificial Analysis
AA-Briefcase v1.1not in index––874#52–Artificial Analysis
FACTS Searchnot in indexeffort not stated–––64.3%#19Google

Maths

Benchmarkminimallowmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3–––62.8%#39–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
FrontierMath Tier 4–––26.8%#43–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
OTIS Mock AIME80.0%#11488.9%#76–95.6%#44–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ProofBench–––31.0%#42–Vals AI
LiveBench Mathematicsnot in index–––88.2%#43–LiveBench
AIME 2026effort not statedpossible contamination––––95.0%#18MathArena
HMMT February 2026effort not statedpossible contamination––––95.5%#6MathArena
MathArena Apexeffort not statedpossible contamination––––32.3%#9MathArena
Arena Maths––1482#371497#21–Arena (LMArena)

Knowledge

Benchmarkminimalmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
SimpleQA Verified––66.2%#12–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysisnot in index––64.9%#58–LiveBench
AA-Omniscience0.7#13120.8#6521.2#62–Artificial Analysis
MMLU-Pro––89.5%#10–Vals AI
LegalBench––83.6%#51–Vals AI
CorpFin––64.7%#35–Vals AI
TaxEval––74.4%#36–Vals AI
Excel Modeling Benchmarknot in index––63.5%#28–Vals AI
MedCodenot in index––55.8%#6–Vals AI
MedScribenot in index––76.6%#73–Vals AI
Public Benefits Bench v1.1not in index––59.5%#32–Vals AI
DrugDiscoveryBenchnot in index––50.0%#8–Scale AI SEAL
EBR-benchnot in index––4.8%#25–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
GDP.pdfnot in index–14.0%#42–14.0%#42Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index43.0%#10251.0%#5951.4%#57–Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index25.7%#23838.2%#17137.8%#172–Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

BenchmarkminimalmediumhighSourceTrend
LiveBench Languagenot in index––84.6%#16LiveBench
LiveBench Instruction Followingnot in index––75.6%#7LiveBench
IFBench47.3%#18974.6%#3576.3%#21Artificial Analysis
Arena Instruction Followingnot in index–1466#421465#44Arena (LMArena)

Human preference

Benchmarkmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Text1476#331477#30–Arena (LMArena)
EQ-Bench 4effort not stated––1087#23EQ-Bench
Arena Creative Writingnot in index1469#201464#24–Arena (LMArena)
Arena Multi-turnnot in index1478#441480#39–Arena (LMArena)
Arena Longer Queriesnot in index1480#461482#39–Arena (LMArena)

Multimodal

Benchmarkminimalmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Vision–1306#141308#13–Arena (LMArena)
MMMU-Pro80.1%#5383.9%#2484.3%#20–Artificial Analysis
MMMU-Pro (Vals)not in index––88.3%#8–Vals AI
MortgageTaxnot in index––68.1%#19–Vals AI
SAGEnot in index––49.9%#18–Vals AI
Blueprint-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––33.6%#10Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Long context

BenchmarkminimalmediumhighSourceTrend
AA-LCR61.3%#27374.3%#16273.3%#178Artificial Analysis
Arena Documentnot in index–1461#251453#28Arena (LMArena)
MLCRnot in index––10.0%#113Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarkminimalmediumhighnot statedSourceTrend
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in indexeffort not stated–––154.9#38Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 1.0not in index––74.6%#39–LiveBench
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.223.9#18233.6#10532.6#110–Artificial Analysis
Vals Multimodal Indexnot in index––62.9%#16–Vals AI

Where it wins

Benchmarks where this configuration ranks in the top five of every configuration measured.

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Google AI Studio155 tok/s1.72 s$1.50$9.001.0M–
Google Vertex120 tok/s1.48 s$1.50$9.001.0M–
Google AI Studio79 tok/s0.84 s$0.750$4.501.0M–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.150 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0033$0.002915.7 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.023$0.01117.0 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.022$0.01621.1 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.126$0.06532.3 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0048$0.002815.2 s

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Questions people ask

What are Gemini 3.5 Flash's benchmark scores?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash (high effort) scores 63.1 ±2.8 on the BenchLeader Index, top 100, strongest in instruction following (74) and weakest in maths (58). That rests on 33 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Gemini 3.5 Flash rank?
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high effort) is #70 of 785 ranked configurations on 24 Oct 2026 (top 100). 143 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash cost per 1M tokens?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9.00 per 1M output tokens, $3.38 blended (three input tokens per output token).
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B are neck and neck on quality (63.1 vs 63.1, inside the ±5.7 margin of error) and cost about the same, so speed decides it: Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) streams 5.2× faster. The head-to-head page has the benchmark-by-benchmark detail.
When was Gemini 3.5 Flash released?
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash on 19 May 2026. BenchLeader has results for it at 5 reasoning-effort settings.

Data as of 24 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Gemini 3.5 Flash: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 24 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gemini-3-5-flash.