Model comparison

Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Solar Pro 3

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Solar Pro 3 Upstage

33.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Solar Pro 3 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 53.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash and 24.7% for Solar Pro 3.
  • Solar Pro 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemini 3.5 Flash and Solar Pro 3 specifications
Gemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
ProviderGoogleUpstage
Noometry Index54.133.3
Released2026-05-192026-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$9$0.25
Results tracked542

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46), Solar Pro 3: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
SciCode53.1%24.7%
SWE-bench Verified79.3%—
DeepSWE37.4%—
LMArena WebDev1499—
WeirdML62.6%—
LMArena Coding1492—
ALE-Bench911.02—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107), Solar Pro 3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
APEX-Agents27.5%—
GBAEval6.7%—
GDP.pdf14%—
Vending-Bench 25,396—

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16), Solar Pro 3: 21.7

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
CritPt13.1%0%
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench76.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.6%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
Chess Puzzles50%—
EnigmaEval25.4%—
EBR-Bench4.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1488—
Mystery Game Puzzles32%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA47.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench58.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.55—
ForecastBench59—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30), Solar Pro 3: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10), Solar Pro 3: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
GPQA Diamond92.8%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—
LMArena Expert1493—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13), Solar Pro 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
LMArena Vision1311—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
LMArena Document1463—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12), Solar Pro 3: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
LMArena Non-English1475—
LMArena Chinese1525—
LMArena French1490—
LMArena German1500—
LMArena Japanese1481—
LMArena Korean1453—
LMArena Russian1491—
LMArena Spanish1478—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29), Solar Pro 3: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
LMArena Instruction Following1466—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39), Solar Pro 3: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
LMArena Longer Query1481—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46), Solar Pro 3: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3.5 FlashSolar Pro 3
LMArena Text1481—
LMArena Creative Writing1467—
EQ-Bench 41087—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash better than Solar Pro 3?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Solar Pro 3?

Solar Pro 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Gemini 3.5 Flash lists at $1.50 and $9.

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash or Solar Pro 3 better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.5 Flash and Solar Pro 3 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro 3 has 2.

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