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Gemini 3.5 Flash benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Gemini 3.5 Flash, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 1, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 1, 2026

#16of 85

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 67 across 3 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Gemini 3.5 Flash

Artificial Analysis

#16of 51

Score 32.6. Best run: google/gemini-3.5-flash.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

#13of 34

Score 74.6. Best run: Gemini 3.5 Flash High.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#13of 79

Score 1476. Best run: gemini-3.5-flash-high.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$3.38

OpenRouter: $1.50 in, $9.00 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $1.50 in, $9.00 out Context window 1.0M tokens. LiveBench cost per solved task $0.249.

Nearby

The models either side of Gemini 3.5 Flash

  1. #13Claude Sonnet 569
  2. #14Claude Opus 4.6 Thinking High Effort69
  3. #15Claude Opus 4.5 20251101 Thinking 64K High Effort68
  4. #16Gemini 3.5 Flash67
  5. #17Gemini 3.6 Flash67
  6. #18GPT-5.6 Terra66
  7. #19grok-4-1-fast-reasoning65

Questions about Gemini 3.5 Flash

How good is Gemini 3.5 Flash?
Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #16 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 67 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Claude Opus 4.5 20251101 Thinking 64K High Effort?
Not on the consensus: Claude Opus 4.5 20251101 Thinking 64K High Effort scores 68 to Gemini 3.5 Flash's 67. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?
On the consensus, yes: 67 to 67.
How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash cost?
$1.50 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $3.38 per million.
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash good for coding?
It scores 70.1 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #12 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.

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