Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Lyria 3 Pro Preview
Updated October 21, 2026. 0 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle
- Coding
- 39.8
- Overall
- 33.6
- Output $/M
- $9.00
Lyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogle
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- No data
vs 1.05M vs 1.05M context window. About the same size.
Decision reading
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a coding score, 39.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Lyria 3 Pro Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Model AGemini 3.5 FlashGoogle39.8/1004 independent benchmarks$1.21 per solved taskModel BLyria 3 Pro PreviewGoogleNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 0
- Gemini 3.5 Flash only
- 110
- Lyria 3 Pro Preview only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a AA Intelligence Index result, 33.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a MMLU Pro result, 89.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1268.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1.05M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Lyria 3 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.5 Flash $0.0060, Lyria 3 Pro Preview $0.0000 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has the number, $1.21.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.5 Flash 39.8 from 4 benchmarks, Lyria 3 Pro Preview not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- No category has a result for both models.
- Widest single gap
- No benchmark has a result for both models.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.5 Flash $9.00 against Lyria 3 Pro Preview Free per million output tokens.
- Context window
- Both take 1.05M tokens.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1499 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 78.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 6.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 74.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 52.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SciCode | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 46.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| WeirdML | 62.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ALE-Bench | 911.0 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1493 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1494 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1495 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1522 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1504 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 33.6 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.9 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1202 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1197 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1175 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1190 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1098 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1180 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1142 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1179 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 57.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 21.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 30.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 63.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| APEX-Agents | 27.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,396 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 88.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 92.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI | 92.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SimpleBench | 76.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Chess puzzles | 45.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 32.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| EBR-bench | 4.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1488 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1495 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1483 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1323 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1330 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 95.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 62.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| ProofBench | 31.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1504 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1495 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 64.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 55.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1495 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1483 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1488 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1467 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1268 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1273 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1263 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1236 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1244 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1266 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1254 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1254 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index33 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 59.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 76.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 62.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| IFBench | 76.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 74.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| DTBench | 94.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMCA | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 58.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text | 1482 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1467 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1470 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1308 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1481 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1475 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1527 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1494 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1486 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1448 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1490 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1480 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1493 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1516 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1481 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1483 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1478 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1459 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1305 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1377 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1317 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1321 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1301 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| LMArena Document | 1463 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.5 Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Lyria 3 Pro Preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash$0.0060Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview$0.0000Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash$0.102Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview$0.0000Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemini 3.5 Flash$0.390Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview$0.0000Fits in one request
Lyria 3 Pro Preview costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 3.5 Flash | Google Lyria 3 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | ||
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 19, 2026 | March 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.50 | Free |
| Output $/Mtok | $9.00 | Free |
| Coding index | 39.8 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.21 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Lyria 3 Pro Preview for coding?
Only Gemini 3.5 Flash has a coding score, 39.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Lyria 3 Pro Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Compare them on price, context and the boards below.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Lyria 3 Pro Preview?
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens; Lyria 3 Pro Preview costs Free and Free. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 3.5 Flash only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Lyria 3 Pro Preview?
Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Lyria 3 Pro Preview comparison based on?
0 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.5 Flash's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Lyria 3 Pro Preview's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.