Jul 21, 2026
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash evaluated on the Vals Index
We evaluated Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash on the Vals Index and proprietary benchmarks.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 55.35% on the Vals Index, placing #13 of 43 models overall and finishing within 2.28 points of Gemini 3.5 Flash.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash ranks #1 on the CyberBench Patch track at 84.75%, which measures fixing real-world open-source vulnerabilities.
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Its coding results include 77.45% on the SWE-bench Verified Vals Index subset and 57.88% on the Vibe Code Bench Vals Index subset, improvements of 1.96 and 3.17 points over Gemini 3.5 Flash, respectively.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 73.78% across three full trials of Terminal-Bench 2.1, placing #8 of 43 models. It also places #7 of 74 models on MedCode, scoring 53.15%.
We evaluated Gemini 3.6 Flash with temperature 1, high reasoning effort, and up to 65k output tokens. The model supports a 1M-token context window, multimodal inputs, and tool calling.
Congrats to the Google team on the release!