Gemini 3.7 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Luna
Updated October 21, 2026. 102 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding: it scores 69.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 61.5 for GPT-5.6 Luna.
Pick GPT-5.6 Luna when output tokens cost 3.1x less, or when a solved task costs $0.04 against $1.78.
- Shared results
- 102
- Gemini 3.7 Flash only
- 10
- GPT-5.6 Luna only
- 14
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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, four public coding benchmarks
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 69.9 against 61.5.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 39.6 against 37.3.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Luna has a AA Agentic Index result, 42.1.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 93.9% against 91.7%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 90.1% against 86.0%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 1304 against 1256.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.6 Luna
GPT-5.6 Luna takes 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna
Gemini 3.7 Flash $0.0026, GPT-5.6 Luna $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
GPT-5.6 Luna
Gemini 3.7 Flash $1.78, GPT-5.6 Luna $0.04.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 3.7 Flash 69.9 from 2 benchmarks, GPT-5.6 Luna 61.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Web design, 11.5 points apart on average over 9 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- CyberBench (Vals AI): Gemini 3.7 Flash 43.8% against GPT-5.6 Luna 73.6%, 29.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.7 Flash $3.75 against GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 per million output tokens, 3.1x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 3.7 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, GPT-5.6 Luna 1.05M.
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.
| Category | Gemini 3.7 Flash | Bars | GPT-5.6 Luna | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 13 | 6 | 1 tie | |
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 6 | 4 | ||
| Reasoning | 15 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 8 | 2 | ||
| Web design | 8 | 1 | ||
| General | 26 | 4 | ||
| All shared boards | 80 | 21 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index136
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 80.5% | 73.6% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev | 1591 | 1518 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| AA Coding Index | 71.5 | 71.4 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 88.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 80.8% | 93.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 12.1% | 11.6% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | 77.1% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 34.8% | 44.5% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | 0.0% | Tie |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 67.8% | 61.8% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 77.5% | 79.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 22.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 65.9% | 60.5% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | 73.6% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| SciCode | 59.8% | 53.6% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| FrontierCode | 43.6% | 39.8% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| FrontierSWE | 20.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 60.9% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| ALE-Bench | 904.3 | 1667.4 | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1499 | 1466 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1498 | 1463 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1587 | 1508 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1593 | 1520 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1599 | 1517 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 39.6 | 37.3 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 158.0 | 156.5 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index64
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 42.1 | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1224 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1208 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1230 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1247 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1264 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1235 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1028 | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| LiveBench research | 76.5% | 51.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LiveBench browser | 56.0% | 68.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LiveBench long agentic | 28.3% | 30.4% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 4.6% | 1.5% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 59.0% | 55.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 22.8% | 24.8% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 34.6% | 36.5% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 71.3% | 67.1% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 7.1% | 0.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 25.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| APEX-Agents | 67.8% | 43.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Remote Labor Index | 5.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 45.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $4,095 | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index150
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.9% | 91.7% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LiveBench reasoning | 87.8% | 85.6% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.4% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.0% | 85.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 94.5% | 91.1% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 47.9% | 39.5% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 94.8% | 91.6% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| ARC-AGI | 95.5% | 88.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 84.6% | 59.5% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 46.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Chess puzzles | 66.0% | 43.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Mystery game puzzles | 37.0% | 21.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1495 | 1451 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1512 | 1478 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1487 | 1460 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1329 | 1273 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1320 | 1282 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index24
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 97.2% | 98.3% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 71.6% | 82.1% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 36.6% | 61.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| ProofBench | 58.0% | 60.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text: math | 1511 | 1459 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1502 | 1470 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index82
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 90.1% | 86.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 87.3% | 84.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.7% | 76.2% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.7% | 67.3% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.4% | 42.4% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.2% | 41.0% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: science | 1511 | 1433 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1494 | 1399 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1496 | 1446 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1479 | 1439 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index81
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1304 | 1256 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1299 | 1250 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1318 | 1196 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1315 | 1212 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1308 | 1121 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1308 | 1231 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1283 | 1193 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1276 | 1144 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LiveBench design | 73.2% | 76.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index264
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 68.0% | 78.0% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 49.2% | 44.2% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 83.9% | 84.4% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 69.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.0% | 83.7% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| DTBench | 96.8% | 89.1% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMCA | 50.4% | 48.5% | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 61.9% | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Furniture assembly | 26.7% | 42.5% | GPT-5.6 Luna |
| LMArena Text | 1489 | 1431 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1484 | 1437 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1488 | 1396 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1314 | 1257 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: English | 1483 | 1441 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1487 | 1417 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1552 | 1470 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1506 | 1455 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1511 | 1415 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1481 | 1415 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1500 | 1458 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1495 | 1446 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1515 | 1427 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1503 | 1405 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1485 | 1434 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1492 | 1436 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1491 | 1419 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1477 | 1402 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1309 | 1263 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1394 | 1294 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1322 | 1264 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1299 | 1190 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1312 | 1257 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1457 | Only GPT-5.6 Luna measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5.6 Luna | 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
GPT-5.6 Luna costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
GPT-5.6 Luna 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 3.7 Flash | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 13, 2026 | July 9, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.75 | $0.20 |
| Output $/Mtok | $3.75 | $1.20 |
| Coding index | 69.9 | 61.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.78 | $0.04 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than GPT-5.6 Luna for coding?
Pick Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding: it scores 69.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 61.5 for GPT-5.6 Luna. Pick GPT-5.6 Luna when output tokens cost 3.1x less, or when a solved task costs $0.04 against $1.78.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or GPT-5.6 Luna?
Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.20 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $1.78 and GPT-5.6 Luna $0.04.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.7 Flash or GPT-5.6 Luna?
GPT-5.6 Luna, with 1.05M tokens against 1.05M.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.7 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Luna comparison based on?
102 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemini 3.7 Flash's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and GPT-5.6 Luna's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.