Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash is developed by Google, while MAI-Code-1.1-Flash comes from Microsoft. Gemini 3.6 Flash was released in July 2026, and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash followed a month later in August 2026. MAI-Code-1.1-Flash has a published size of about 138 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3.6 Flash.
We have 7 benchmark results for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 2 benchmark results for MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, but they overlap on a single test: Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 78.0% against 62.9%.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is the cheaper API at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, roughly 8 times cheaper than Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 and $7.50. Gemini 3.6 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Both accept text and images as input. On tooling, only Gemini 3.6 Flash supports function calling and only Gemini 3.6 Flash offers structured output.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | MAI-Code-1.1-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Microsoft | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 11, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 138B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 256K |
| Context (output) | 66K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $0.20 |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | $1.20 |
| Average Score | 68.0% | 67.8% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.0% | 62.9% |
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Verdict
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.7, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash — 0.7.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is 6.4x cheaper: input $0.20/1M vs $1.50/1M tokens.
Gemini 3.6 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is newer: released 8/11/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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