Benchmark Almanac

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash places in the top three on MLE-bench.

Google DeepMind Released 21 Jul 2026 Family Gemini 3.6 The lab's model card
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
Google DeepMind Jul 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Closed weights Mid-size

154.7 #42 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • DeepSWE 46.7% #23 /28
  • ZeroBench 18% #17 /66
  • Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 3.33% #43 /80

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMArena (Elo) 1,483 #20 of 333 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 76.4 #5 of 62 Official leaderboard
MRCR v2 91.8% #4 of 27 Model card
FACTS Multimodal 47.2% #6 of 39 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 66.2% #13 of 84 Epoch AI
FACTS Benchmark Suite 63.1% #8 of 40 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 73.3% #10 of 45 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 94.3% #10 of 43 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 89% #25 of 97 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 73.9% #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 72.5 #40 of 120 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 39% #58 of 122 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,453 #24 of 37 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 18.2% #75 of 107 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search V2 68.2% #18 of 21 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 94.1% #11 of 219 Epoch AI
DTBench 92.5% #21 of 178 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 94.2% #47 of 202 Epoch AI
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 26% #12 of 47 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 91.2% #28 of 92 Official leaderboard
CritPt 10.6% #56 of 160 Epoch AI
ProofBench 36% #21 of 59 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 60.4% #36 of 95 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 96.7% #12 of 31 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 59% #43 of 89 Epoch AI
HMMT 2026 89.4% #16 of 31 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 21.9% #48 of 71 Epoch AI
ForecastBench 65.3 #76 of 86 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 65.6% #27 of 29 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MLE-bench 63.9% #3 of 18 Model card
AndroidBench 75.6% #10 of 32 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,537 #33 of 105 Epoch AI
WeirdML 56.1% #38 of 112 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,538 #45 of 124 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 58.7% #29 of 77 Model card
ProgramBench 0.50% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 64% #52 of 115 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,545 #27 of 55 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 30.9% #41 of 78 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 34.4% #30 of 46 Epoch AI
ALE-Bench 716 #81 of 121 Epoch AI
DeepSWE 46.7% #23 of 28 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 35.1% #39 of 45 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LLM Chess 1,094 #19 of 124 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 83% #6 of 37 Model card
Game Arena Coin Game 438 #7 of 35 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 1,238 #8 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 329 #9 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 496 #10 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 707 #12 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 288 #12 of 36 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 30% #30 of 80 Epoch AI
Kaggle Game Arena 325 #15 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker 2.79 #12 of 31 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 42% #33 of 83 Epoch AI
Game Arena Word Art 620 #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 39% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 951 #16 of 38 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 295 #18 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 271 #18 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 480 #19 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 594 #19 of 36 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 78% #28 of 53 Model card
Game Arena Bargaining 178 #22 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 719 #22 of 36 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 787 #25 of 37 Official leaderboard
GAIA 1.66% #54 of 57 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LegalBench 86.7% #12 of 138 Official leaderboard
MedCode 53.1% #11 of 96 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 57.4% #9 of 72 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.9% #28 of 129 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 56.3% #20 of 80 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 67.6% #23 of 86 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 65.4% #25 of 76 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 63.3% #46 of 119 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 3.33% #43 of 80 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 82.6% #28 of 50 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 79.7% #57 of 98 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,421 #16 of 26 Model card
FrontierFinance 46.3% #10 of 16 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 46.9% #36 of 56 Epoch AI
Tax Agent Bench 18% #54 of 79 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 25% #62 of 88 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 20% #19 of 26 Official leaderboard
EEBench 37.4% #20 of 26 Official leaderboard
CommerceAgentBench 46.7% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 56.6% #41 of 50 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CharXiv 89.4% #8 of 67 Model card
Vision Arena 1,282 #21 of 136 Official leaderboard
1H-VideoQA 82.2% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 18% #17 of 66 Official leaderboard
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 87.8% #6 of 22 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 69.4% #14 of 42 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 31.9% #13 of 29 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,771 #26 of 56 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 31.2% #17 of 35 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 14% #33 of 39 Epoch AI
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 23.3% #30 of 35 Epoch AI

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 65.8% #10 of 71 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 11.5 #22 of 28 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 48.5% #21 of 26 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 45.4% #37 of 43 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Conceptual Reasoning Index 59.5 #34 of 149 Official leaderboard
LMCA 44.9% #39 of 139 Epoch AI
SAGE (Vals) 48.7% #25 of 81 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 70.0 #52 of 150 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 65.1% #13 of 33 Official leaderboard

Google DeepMind's models over time

Google DeepMind's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemma 3 12B 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 5 of them aren't in the launch post.