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9 undominated of 134 · Aug 28, 2026

As of Aug 28, 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 53.7 higher and costs 12% less, with a covering envelope. 9 of 134 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

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Gemini 3.7 Flash1490.2 · $0.750/MGemini 3.5 Flash Lite1436.5 · $0.850/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
134 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

Gemini 3.7 Flash is both better and cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

LMArena Elo

1436.5

Effective $/M · Balanced

$0.850/M

Gemini 3.7 Flash

LMArena Elo

1490.2

Effective $/M · Balanced

$0.750/M

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Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
Gemini 3.7 Flash1490.2 +53.7$0.750/M12%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou give up
MiMo-V2.5-Pro1465.0$0.544/Mimage, video, file, audio
Qwen3.7 Plus1456.2$0.560/Mcontext, video, file, audio
Gemma 4 31B1441.7$0.153/Mcontext, max output, file, audio
Hy31441.2$0.144/Mcontext, image, video, file, audio
Qwen3.6 Plus1436.8$0.731/Mcontext, file, audio

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