Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash both come from Google, Gemini 3.6 Flash was released in July 2026, and Gemini 3.7 Flash followed a month later in August 2026.
The two models share 4 published benchmarks. Gemini 3.7 Flash leads on 3 of them, Gemini 3.6 Flash on 1. The widest gaps are on MRCR v2 (8-needle), where Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 97.0% against 54.0%; DeepSWE 1.1, where Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 65.3% against 49.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 3.6 Flash sits at 68.0% and Gemini 3.7 Flash at 59.8%.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 and $7.50. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | ||
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 13, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $0.75 |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | $3.75 |
| Average Score | 68.0% | 59.8% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MRCR v2 (8-needle) | 54.0% | 97.0% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 49.0% | 65.3% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.0% | 85.8% |
| CharXiv-R | 89.0% | 88.7% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.7, Gemini 3.7 Flash — 0.6.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is 2.0x cheaper: input $0.75/1M vs $1.50/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is newer: released 8/13/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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