Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)

By Google · released 2026-05-19 (5 months) · snapshot 2026-10-24

Not ranked · benchmark data missingproprietary

Intelligence index: 33.60
Price per 1M tokens (in / out): $1.50 / $9.00
End-to-end time: 14.9s

Better than…

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) does not report both selected axis metrics.

Open in the picker Daily check URL: 200 on the frontier, 409 once beaten

At a glance

Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) today

Time to first answer12.4s

Output speed199 tok/s

Context window1000k

Input modalitiesText, Image, Speech, Video

Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index: 33.60
Benchmark cost: Not reported
Input / 1M tokens: 1.50
Output / 1M tokens: 9.00
Context window: 1000k

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: gemini-3-5-flash-medium.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Suggested: what beats it, its effort levels, and frontier models near its price.

Compare Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) with measured models

Release

What the Gemini 3.5 Flash release did to the frontier on 2026-05-19

None of its 3 effort levels reached the frontier at launch.

Closest miss: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High), 1.2 points below GPT-5.5 (Medium) at 2.0× the cost.

Release page: launch-day frontier and every effort level

Deciding

Should you use Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium)?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) cost?

$1.50/$9.00 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Gemini 3.5 Flash (Medium) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axis	X axis	On the frontier
AA intelligence index	AA total cost to run (USD)	no data
AA intelligence index	End-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence index	Output speed tokens/sec

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