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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3 Deep Think

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #30 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Deep Think in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.8 to 58.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 60.4% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 84.6% for Gemini 3 Deep Think.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index54.158.5
Released2026-07-212026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked463

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 49.6 (#45), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
LMArena WebDev1536—
SciCode52.7%—
WeirdML56.1%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.4 (#56), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
APEX-Agents46.9%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.9 (#20), Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.8 (#11)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
ARC-AGI-260.4%84.6%
ARC-AGI-191.2%96%
CritPt10.6%25.7%
NYT Connections (extended)89%—
Chess Puzzles43%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
Mystery Game Puzzles30%—
DTBench95.5%—
LMCA44.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.36—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.0 (#33), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%—
ProofBench36%—
LMArena Math1504—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#7), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1489—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.7 (#55), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—
LMArena Document1456—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.8 (#17), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Non-English1470—
LMArena Chinese1530—
LMArena French1501—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1477—
LMArena Korean1435—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.2 (#27), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#47), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.3 (#26), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashGemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Text1478—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1604—
LMArena Multi-Turn1481—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Gemini 3 Deep Think?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3 Deep Think share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3.

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