Which is better: Gemini 4 Carbon or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

Verdict: Gemini 4 Carbon ranks higher (#5 vs #61) and wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs less ($0.30/$2.50 vs $4.00/$20.0 per 1M tokens). AskClash compares Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite side by side across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, AskClash ACB, and context window so you can see which model wins on each benchmark.

How do Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite compare on coding benchmarks?

The comparison table shows SWE-bench, SWE-Pro, SWE-Atlas, Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and coding agent index scores for both Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite when publicly disclosed.

LLM Comparison

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Side-by-side Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

Verdict: Gemini 4 Carbon ranks higher (#5 vs #61) and wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs less ($0.30/$2.50 vs $4.00/$20.0 per 1M tokens).

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Rank #5 vs #61AskClash overall scores 73.8 vs 16.8.

Pricing $4.00/$20.0 vs $0.30/$2.50Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.

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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

Metric	Gemini 4 Carbon	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Overall Score	73.8	16.8
Leaderboard Rank	#5	#61
ACB	80.8	—
RWT	—	7.0
Coding Agent Index	59.4	—
HLE	60.4	18.8
GPQA	—	83.8
SWE-Pro	—	54.2
SWE-Atlas	63.7	—
Terminal-Bench	65.2	—
GDPval-AA	1732.7	1140.0
OSWorld	—	74.0
Finance Agent	67.2	—
MMMU-Pro	—	79.0
MRCR	—	72.2
Input Price (per 1M tokens)	$4.00	$0.30
Output Price (per 1M tokens)	$20.0	$2.50
Context Window	1M	1M
Benchmarks Published	10	8

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite head-to-head charts

Gemini 4 Carbon leads 3 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads 0 of 3 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Gemini 4 CarbonGemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Overall

73.8Gemini 4 Carbon

16.8Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

HLE

60.4Gemini 4 Carbon

18.8Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

GDPval-AA

1732.7Gemini 4 Carbon

1140.0Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 4 Carbon

Input$4.00

Output$20.0

Workload$8.00

Context1M

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Input$0.30

Output$2.50

Workload$0.80

Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.