Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash
Compare Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Open Prompt, Classification, Image Captioning, OCR, and Object Detection.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash on Vision Evals
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher on 4 of the six Vision Evals tasks.
The widest gap is Object Detection, where Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 70.5% to 57.1%.
Overall, Gemini 3.6 Flash averages 83.0% (#7 of 53) against 85.2% (#3 of 53) for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper ($0.0031 vs $0.0032 per sample), while Gemini 3.6 Flash is faster (14.7s vs 16.5s per sample).
Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash Comparison Table
Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 13, 2026
| Property | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | ||
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Undisclosed | |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.750 | $0.750 |
| Output $/1M | $3.75 | $3.75 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | Demo |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | Demo |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Video Classification | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 83.0% | 85.2% |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0032 | $0.0031 |
| Avg speed / sample | 14.66s | 16.50s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 57.1% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 55.9 to 59.4 | 70.5% ±1.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.4 to 71.5 |
| Object Detection (high) | 70.7% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 70.3 to 71.2 | 74.3% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.3 to 75.0 |
| Counting (low) | 80.2% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 82.4 | 78.4% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 79.7 |
| Counting (high) | 79.3% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 82.4 | 79.3% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 81.1 |
| Identification (low) | 99.0% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 100.0 | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| Identification (high) | 100.0% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 100.0 to 100.0 | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| OCR (low) | 88.2% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.9 to 88.4 | 88.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.9 to 90.0 |
| OCR (high) | 89.5% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.5 to 89.6 | 89.0% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 88.3 to 89.9 |
| Data Extraction (low) | 95.9% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 94.8 to 96.9 | 96.2% ±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 95.9 to 96.9 |
| Data Extraction (high) | 94.8% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 95.9 | 95.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 95.9 to 95.9 |
| Reasoning (low) | 77.7% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.2 to 80.1 | 80.8% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.8 to 82.8 |
| Reasoning (high) | 81.0% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.5 to 83.4 | 81.9% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.1 to 82.8 |
Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 3.7 Flash: Overview
Gemini 3.6 Flash is a multimodal language model from Google DeepMind, positioned as the workhorse tier in the Gemini 3.x family. It accepts text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs with a 1 million token context window and produces up to 64,000 output tokens. The model builds directly on Gemini 3.5 Flash, incorporating developer and customer feedback to improve token efficiency, coding quality, and knowledge work performance. According to the Artificial Analysis Index, it consumes 17% fewer output tokens than its predecessor, and on some benchmarks such as DeepSWE, token reduction reaches up to 65%. It supports function calling, structured output, search as a tool, and code execution, and includes computer use as a built-in capability in the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise.
On coding benchmarks, Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 49% on DeepSWE versus 37% for 3.5 Flash, and 63.9% on MLE Bench versus 49.7%. Computer use performance on OSWorld-Verified improves from 78.4% to 83%, and knowledge work scores on GDPval-AA v2 rise from 1349 to 1421. The model carries a knowledge cutoff of March 2026 and ships with enhanced Frontier Safety safeguards covering chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cyber offense domains, with training to minimize refusals for beneficial uses. It is a proprietary, closed-weights model available in preview through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise, and the Gemini app.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is a proprietary multimodal model from Google, positioned in the Flash branch of the Gemini 3 series that trades some of the capacity of the larger Pro models for lower latency and lower cost per token. It accepts interleaved text and image input alongside other modalities handled by the Gemini family and returns text, and it continues the series pattern of exposing a configurable thinking budget so that reasoning effort can be scaled up for harder problems or reduced for high throughput extraction, routing and classification work. The model is announced roughly three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash, part of an unusually fast iteration cadence within the Flash line.
Google reports gains concentrated in agentic coding and front end generation, citing a WebDev Arena Elo of 1588 for this release compared with 1538 for the preceding Flash model, and describes it as producing more functional layouts and more feature complete applications in fewer prompts. Weights are not published and the architecture, parameter count and training corpus are undisclosed, consistent with prior Gemini releases. Visual capability follows the Flash lineage, covering image and document understanding, chart and diagram interpretation, text recognition in images, and general visual question answering.
Frequently Asked Questions
On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 3.7 Flash performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the six vision tasks and averages 85.2% (#3 of 53) against 83.0% (#7 of 53) for Gemini 3.6 Flash. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.
No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark at low effort, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads with 70.5% against 57.1%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.
Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0031 per sample against $0.0032. Gemini 3.6 Flash is priced at $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output; Gemini 3.7 Flash is priced at $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 14.7s per inference against 16.5s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for open prompts and image classification in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.