# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite > Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks. - Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-gemini-3-5-flash-lite - Last updated: September 4, 2026 - Shared sourced benchmarks: 10 - HTML indexing: indexable - Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5 ## Quick Verdict Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score. ## Summary - Gemini 3.5 Flash leads overall 70.01 to 60.5. - The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 68.5 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 53 for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. - The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) in Agentic, with scores of 74.2% and 50.2%. - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use. ## Model Snapshot | Property | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | |----------|----------|----------| | Creator | Google | Google | | Type | Proprietary | Proprietary | | Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning | | Context | 1M | 1M | | Overall Score | 70.01 | 60.5 | | Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 10 | | Pricing (input/output) | $1.50 / $9.00 | $0.30 / $2.50 | ## Category Breakdown ### Agentic - Winner: Coming soon - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 50.6 (Supported · #61/151) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 43.4 (Estimated · #104/151) | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | 54% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | MCP Atlas | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Toolathlon | 56.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | OSWorld-Verified | 78.4% | 74% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | Finance Agent v2 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Gert Labs | 61.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.2% | 50.2% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | ### Coding - Winner: Gemini 3.5 Flash - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 57.7 (Supported · #34/183) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 43.6 (Supported · #121/183) | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 76.2% | 54.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 54.2% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | Vibe Code Bench | 48.68% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | cursorBench31 | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | cursorBench32 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.6% | 79.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | SWE-bench (Vals) | 78.8% | 75.0% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | ### Multimodal & Grounded - Winner: Coming soon - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 85.9 (#6/48) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 76.1 (#16/48) | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | CharXiv | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | MMMU-Pro | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Blueprint-Bench 2 | 33.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon | ### Reasoning - Winner: Coming soon - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 60.3 (#17/22) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 60.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows) | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | MRCRv2 | 77.3% | 72.2% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | MRCR 1M | 26.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon | ### Knowledge - Winner: Gemini 3.5 Flash - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 68.5 (Supported · #19/181) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: 53 (Supported · #71/181) | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | GPQA-D | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | HLE | 40.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 92.7% | 83.8% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | | MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 89.5% | 85.8% | Gemini 3.5 Flash | ### Instruction Following - Winner: Coming soon - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 86.9 (#34/120) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: Coming soon ### Mathematics - Winner: Coming soon - Gemini 3.5 Flash public-lane score: 55.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows) - Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite public-lane score: Coming soon | Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 38.966% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.583% | Coming soon | Coming soon | ## FAQ ### Which is better overall, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite? Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now. ### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite? The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 68.5 for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 53 for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. ### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.5 Flash cover on BenchLM? Gemini 3.5 Flash currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite cover on BenchLM? Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ## Related Comparisons - [Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber](/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-vs-gemini-3-5-flash-cyber) - [Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber](/compare/gemini-3-5-flash-cyber-vs-gemini-3-5-flash-lite) - [Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-gemini-3-5-flash) - [Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-gemini-3-5-flash-lite) ## Explore More - [Gemini 3.5 Flash profile](/models/gemini-3-5-flash) - [Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite profile](/models/gemini-3-5-flash-lite) - [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing) - [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder) - [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector) - [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)