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Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.7 Flash score 89.4% vs 80.1% averaged across five Vision Evals tasks (#1 and #9 of 68 models), so Gemini 4 Carbon leads overall.

  • Gemini 4 Carbon wins 4 of the 5 tasks, with its widest lead on object detection (84.5% vs 70.5%).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash is about half the cost: $0.0033 vs $0.0061 overall average cost per sample.
  • Gemini 4 Carbon is faster: 8.7s vs 11.0s per sample.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 4 Carbon on Vision Evals

Score by taskGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 4 Carbon
Object Detection
70.5
84.5
OCR
73.9
87.2
Counting
78.4
90.1
Reasoning
80.8
91.4
Identification
96.9
93.8

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Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 4 Carbon Comparison Table

Evals updated November 10, 2026Pricing updated November 10, 2026

PropertyGemini 3.7 FlashGemini 4 Carbon
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateAug 2026Nov 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
ParametersUndisclosedUnknown
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termscommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.750No published price
Output $/1M$3.75No published price
Vision Tasks
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Both support 10 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
80.1%
89.4%
Avg cost / sample$0.0033$0.0061
Avg speed / sample11.04s8.71s
By task
Object Detection (low)
70.5%
±1.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.4 to 71.5
$0.0047
84.5%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.2 to 84.8
$0.011
Object Detection (high)
74.3%
±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.3 to 75.0
$0.0089
85.9%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 85.6 to 86.2
$0.102
Counting (low)
78.4%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 79.7
$0.0025
90.1%
±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.2 to 91.9
$0.0024
Counting (high)
79.3%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 77.0 to 81.1
$0.0056
86.9%
±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.8 to 89.2
$0.075
Identification (low)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.0013
93.8%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8
$0.0024
Identification (high)
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.0021
96.9%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9
$0.019
OCR (low)
73.9%
$0.0032
87.2%
$0.0053
by category
Single value
74.8%
Transcription
91.1%
Structured JSON
86.7%
Text localization
29.4%
Single value
80.4%
Transcription
96.6%
Structured JSON
93.0%
Text localization
84.2%
OCR (high)
78.8%
$0.010
89.7%
$0.102
by category
Single value
71.7%
Transcription
91.9%
Structured JSON
90.6%
Text localization
59.2%
Single value
85.2%
Transcription
99.1%
Structured JSON
93.9%
Text localization
85.2%
Reasoning (low)
80.8%
±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.8 to 82.8
$0.0022
91.4%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.1 to 93.4
$0.0025
Reasoning (high)
81.9%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.1 to 82.8
$0.0050
92.3%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.0 to 92.7
$0.057

Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Gemini 4 Carbon: Overview

Gemini 3.7 Flash

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.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Gemini 4 Carbon is a multimodal model from Google. It builds on Gemini 4 Argon and supports reasoning over text and images. Google describes improvements in coding and long-running tasks. Model weights are not publicly released.

Frequently Asked Questions

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Gemini 4 Carbon performed better. It scores higher on 4 of the five vision tasks and averages 89.4% (#1 of 68) against 80.1% (#9 of 68) for Gemini 3.7 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 4 Carbon leads with 84.5% against 70.5%. 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 $0.0033 per sample against $0.0061. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Gemini 4 Carbon is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 8.7s per inference against 11.0s. 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 image captioning and open prompts in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.