Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.6 Flash in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 95.5% for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 54.1 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2026-07-21 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3.75 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierCode | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1538 |
| SciCode | — | 52.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1491 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 715.52 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 46.9% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 14% |
Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 95.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 154.25 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 60.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 89% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 91.2% |
| CritPt | — | 10.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 43% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1485 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 30% |
| LMCA | — | 44.9% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 58.9% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 22% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 70.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 94.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 36% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1505 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 94.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 66.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1488 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1298 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 31.2% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 23.3% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1456 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1469 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1531 |
| LMArena French | — | 1504 |
| LMArena German | — | 1478 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1475 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1466 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1474 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1465 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1604 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1481 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#33); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.