Gemini 3 Flash should really be included in this comparison. Or at least 3.7. In most of my testing, 3.5 and 3.6 were both a downgrade in terms of vision capabilities, relative to 3, and at a much higher cost. 3.7 is slightly better than 3, finally.
3 Flash never left "preview" status and is listed as deprecated.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations
but 3.7 flash is expensive for img inputs no ?
3 Flash never left "preview" status and is listed as deprecated.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations