Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 3.6 Flash in 8 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 28.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 4.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 60.4% for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Side by side

Gemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index45.054.1
Released2025-03-252026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$10$3.75
Results tracked7846

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena WebDev12271538
SciCode42.8%52.7%
WeirdML54%56.1%
LMArena Coding14521491
ALE-Bench785.52715.52
SWE-bench Verified57.6%—
DeepSWE—46.7%
FrontierCode—34.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)53.6%—
Aider Polyglot83.1%—
GSO3.9%—
LiveBench Coding85.9%—
CadEval64%—
AlgoTune1.51—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
Terminal-Bench32.6%—
APEX-Agents—46.9%
GDPval23.3%—
Remote Labor Index0.8%—
TheAgentCompany30.3%—
τ²-bench Banking13.7%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG43.3%—
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons55.4%—
Vending-Bench 2573.64—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
ARC-AGI-24.9%60.4%
ARC-AGI-141%91.2%
CritPt2%10.6%
Chess Puzzles20%43%
LMArena Hard Prompts14551485
DTBench82.4%95.5%
LMCA34.8%44.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index145.32154.25
SimpleBench62.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—89%
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—30%
LiveBench Data Analysis79.9%—
ForecastBench61.3—
LiveBench82.3%—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)24.6%58.9%
FrontierMath Tier 40%22%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.7%94.2%
LMArena Math14501505
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—70.8%
ProofBench—36%
Omni-MATH41.6%—
LiveBench Math90.2%—
MATH Level 595.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)14.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond85.3%94.1%
LMArena Expert14521488
Humanity's Last Exam21.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—66.2%
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)74.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision12631298
LMArena Document14211456
GeoBench86%—
VPCT48%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—31.2%
Furniture Assembly—23.3%
SpatialViz-Bench44.7%—

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English14511469
LMArena Chinese15071531
LMArena French14721504
LMArena German14871478
LMArena Japanese14611476
LMArena Korean14341431
LMArena Russian14611487
LMArena Spanish14731475

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14371466
LiveBench Instruction Following80.6%—
IFEval84%—

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query14491474
Fiction.LiveBench91.7%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27)

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 ProGemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Text14581479
LMArena Creative Writing14541465
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14211604
LMArena Multi-Turn14531481
Short-Story Creative Writing83.8%—
WildBench85.7%—
LiveBench Language67.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 45.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemini 3.6 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.

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