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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash.

A model-level benchmark profile for Gemini 3.5 Flash, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Google lab page

Lab

Google

Proprietary

Coverage

56%

5 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#10

Text Arena

Best suite

#5

Value / 78

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Gemini 3.5 Flash is strongest on value.

56% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #5 in the value view, with a 78 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Text Arena at rank #10 with 9,045 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#5 / 78 value index

Strongest raw signal

Text

#10, 1479 score

Commercial posture

$3.38

12.4s first token / 200 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Vision ArenaSearch ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

5 of 9 signals matched

56%

Arena categories

2/5

Text, Code

Commercial match

Live

Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

gemini-3.5-flash

FrontierCoding

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,479#10

1472-1486 CI

9,045 votes

May 27, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,506#10

1493-1520 CI

2,213 votes

May 25, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$3.38

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$1.50

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$9.00

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

12.4s

Median time to first token

Output speed

200 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#578

value index

blended / 1M tokens$3.38
time to first token12.4s
output speed200 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#1575

coding index

Code Arena rank #101,506
No confident matchNot listed
output speed200 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#3590

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency12.4s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#1475

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #101,479
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision ArenaNot listed

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#2275

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #101,479

Lab context

Nearby Google profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Gemini 3.1 Pro Grounding

gemini-3.1-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#4

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

gemini-3.1-pro-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

67%

Gemini 3 Pro

gemini-3-pro

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

56%

Gemini 3 Pro Grounding

gemini-3-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#7

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3 Flash Grounding

gemini-3-flash-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#10

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3 Flash

gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal)

Proprietary

Best rank

#17

Coverage

78%

Gemma 4 31b

gemma-4-31b

Open weights

Best rank

#23

Coverage

56%

Gemini 2.5 Pro Grounding

gemini-2.5-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#23

Coverage

11%