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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	google	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	84.4	62.3
Input Price	$0.75/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$3.75/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	85.1	61.8
ai_index_agentic	66.8	44.8
ai_index_coding	100.0	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	170	161
Code Review	165	157
Code Completion	132	133
Code Refactoring	163	156
Bug Fixing	178	166
Unit Test Generation	153	146
Code Documentation	142	140
Regex Writing	135	131
CI/CD Pipelines	143	137
Frontend Component Design	145	139
Data Analysis	168	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	149
ETL Scripting	153	147
JSON Extraction	148	145
Bulk Data Labeling	134	134
OCR / Document Parsing	146	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	143
Long-Document Summarization	159	153
Short-Form Summarization	131	129
Blog Post Writing	139	135

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