Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber • Hacker News Board

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

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Post by nsbk » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC

It is 17% more token-efficient than 3.5 and performs significantly better in coding and tool usage benchmarks.

It is also cheaper than 3.5:

> This enhanced efficiency is also combined with a lower price than 3.5 Flash. At $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens, 3.6 Flash reduces the overall cost per agentic task, making agents more cost-effective to build and run.

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

#12

Post by ilreb » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:30 PM UTC

dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993130

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

#13

Post by m_w_ » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

It's a bit disheartening to see no comparison to other models here - and I'm not sure this pushes the curve anywhere. 3.6 flash is more expensive than GLM 5.2 - but seemingly worse, although this post is really light (lite?) on details.

It seemed for a time that Google had finally gotten the ball rolling, but I'm doubting that more and more as time passes. We'll see what happens with 3.5 pro I suppose.

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

#14

Post by b473a » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

No word about updating Jules, which is still stuck on 3.1 Pro. I get that it's probably niche but I've really appreciated basically being able to give directions to Jules on my phone, then reviewing and merging a GitHub PR fifteen minutes later. It's been great for getting some progress in on a few personal projects during my commute when I can't exactly pull out my laptop.

Anyone have any good alternatives?

Re: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

#15

Post by dumberquestions » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

petu wrote: post #8

dumberquestions wrote: post #3

"..and in some benchmarks like DeepSWE by Datacurve, we observe up to 65%, all at a lower cost per output token." "3.6 Flash delivers higher precision with fewer unwanted code edits and reduced execution loops, as seen in DeepSWE (49% vs. 37%)" So which one is it? 65% or 49%?

First sentence is about token efficiency.