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Model Release Radar

Price/capability frontier position, benchmark scores, and community signal

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Model Release Radar

Gemini 3.5 Flash

google·closed weights·Proprietary·released Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Token prices

USD per million tokens via OpenRouter, Google AI Studio (google-ai-studio). Checked 2026-10-17 15:56 UTC.

Cache-write rates with a verified basis replace the ordinary input charge. Unknown rates are never treated as zero.

Frontier position

Behind frontier AA coding index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Qwen3.8 Max (0902), Grok 4.6, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, Grok 4.5, GLM-5.3 are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
Behind frontier AA intelligence index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Qwen3.8 Max (0902), Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, Grok 4.5 are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
Behind frontier DeepSWE pass@1 (agentic coding) (measured USD per task) - Claude Opus 5, Grok 4.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.1, Gemini 3.6 Flash are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.

Cost vs. capability

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Benchmark scores

Benchmark	Pass@1	Measured cost / task	Frontier
DeepSWE (agentic coding) (high effort, 95% CI 32.1%-40.0%, 4 runs)	36.1%	$3.45 (median $2.86)	behind

Artificial Analysis scores describe capability. Compare them against estimated token spend with your cache mix; these estimates are not measured task costs.

Benchmark	Score
AA intelligence index	32.6
AA coding index	70.1

Variants

This page covers 2 reasoning-effort variants of the same model.

Variant	AA coding index	AA intelligence index	Blended /1M (3:1 input/output)
High effort (shown above)	70.1	32.6	$3.38/1M
Medium effort	-	33.6	$3.38/1M

Community signal

Variant	Coding Elo	Overall Elo	Votes
High effort	1,493	1,482	48,486
Medium effort	1,488	1,477	47,292