Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Hy4 Preview: Benchmark Comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash has the higher score on 5 of 16 shared benchmarks; Hy4 Preview leads on 10.

The largest observed score gap is 24.28 pts on IOI , where Hy4 Preview leads.

Reported ±1 standard-error ranges overlap on 2 of 16 shared benchmarks with comparable uncertainty data. This is not a pairwise statistical significance test.

Shared benchmark results

Scores and reported standard errors come from the latest visible Vals benchmark version available for both models.

Benchmark Gemini 3.6 Flash Hy4 Preview Gap Reported uncertainty
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark 3.33% ±1.17 9.17% ±2.00 5.83 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
Legal Research Bench 25.00% ±3.01 45.19% ±3.46 20.19 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
LegalBench 86.70% ±0.41 83.76% ±0.41 2.95 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
EMB 65.41% ±2.65 58.08% ±3.14 7.34 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
Finance Agent (v2) 56.30% ±0.18 55.06% ±0.31 1.23 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
Tax Agent Bench 49.90% ±3.30 63.71% ±3.26 13.82 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
MedCode 53.15% ±2.16 43.25% ±2.13 9.91 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
MedScribe 79.66% ±1.86 83.60% ±2.06 3.94 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
BioMysteryBench 58.52% ±1.61 69.26% ±2.59 10.74 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
Terminal-Bench Science 4.29% ±2.44 1.43% ±1.43 2.86 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges overlap
Code Migration 30.93% ±4.07 47.43% ±4.27 16.51 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
IOI 35.06% ±5.70 59.33% ±4.60 24.28 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
ProgramBench 0.00% ±0.00 0.00% ±0.00 0.00 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges overlap
Vibe Code Bench v1.1 64.00% ±4.29 77.48% ±4.04 13.47 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
CyberBench v1.1 45.36% ±3.75 65.36% ±5.55 20.00 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap
Public Benefits Bench v1.1 56.56% ±1.29 68.61% ±1.21 12.04 pts Reported ±1 SE ranges do not overlap

Performance by category

Category Gemini 3.6 Flash average Hy4 Preview average
Legal 38.35% 46.04%
Finance 57.20% 58.95%
Healthcare 66.41% 63.42%
Science 31.40% 35.34%
Coding 32.50% 46.06%
Cyber 45.36% 65.36%
Social Mobility 56.56% 68.61%

Cost and latency

Cost per test appears only where the benchmark reports it for both models. Latency is the measured completion time for that benchmark.

Benchmark Gemini 3.6 Flash cost Hy4 Preview cost Gemini 3.6 Flash latency Hy4 Preview latency
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark $1.90 $0.98 16m24s 29m25s
Legal Research Bench $0.47 $0.85 2m48s 1h04m
LegalBench N/A N/A 2.96s 90.56s
EMB $3.89 $0.79 12m06s 30m39s
Finance Agent (v2) $1.40 $0.59 3m45s 23m45s
Tax Agent Bench $0.36 $0.59 105.32s 41m04s
MedCode N/A N/A 16.68s 6m39s
MedScribe N/A N/A 33.55s 5m50s
BioMysteryBench $1.25 $0.36 12m42s 23m30s
Terminal-Bench Science $4.39 $2.14 1h52m 3h48m
Code Migration $8.93 $3.41 1h30m 2h13m
IOI $8.67 $1.35 48m23s 1h01m
ProgramBench $5.92 $12.81 47m33s 2h10m
Vibe Code Bench v1.1 $3.04 $2.18 25m23s 41m33s
CyberBench v1.1 $1.31 $0.49 11m00s 36m43s
Public Benefits Bench v1.1 $0.39 $0.25 2m02s 1h03m

Results available only for Gemini 3.6 Flash

  • MortgageTax
  • TaxEval v2
  • GPQA Diamond
  • MMLU Pro
  • MMMU Pro
  • SAGE
  • LiveCodeBench
  • SWE-bench

Results available only for Hy4 Preview

  • Vals Index
  • ProofBench v1.1
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0
  • SRE Bench
Model details Gemini 3.6 Flash Model details Hy4 Preview