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Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs 3 Flash Performance

GoogleX · Jul 21, 2026 · official

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs 3 Flash Performance

Google's bar chart drew 23.6K views on X: 0.3x its median post and #682 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite outperforms 3 Flash in benchmarks

XData Bar chart Gemini Flash-Lite All Google models3 Flash3.5 Flash-Lite

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs 3 Flash Performance — Published by Google on X, Jul 21, 2026. Source: x.com

28/ 100

ViralChart score

Quiet

Fewer views and a lower engagement rate than the median post.

#936 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #22 of 22 Google posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

It sits in the Quiet quadrant, at #936 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

Its 0.015 views per follower sits at 0.07x the median across posts with known followers, an 8th percentile mark.

Saves landed at 0.021%, 0.28x the AI chart median and #1,046 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

At 23.6K views it reached 0.32x Google's 73.2K company median, #17 of 22 Google posts.

0.02views per follower

23.6K views from an account with 1.6M followers.

2charts in this one post

The numbers belong to the post, so every chart in it shares them and it is ranked once.

bottom 10%save rate

0.021% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

bottom 11%engagement rate

0.34% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 22 from Google.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #936 of 1,162

Views	23.6K	#682	bottom 41%
Likes	59	#838	bottom 28%
Engagement rate	0.34%	#1,030	bottom 11%
Save rate	0.021%	#1,046	bottom 10%

Among 22 Google posts

Score #22 of 22

Views	23.6K	#17	bottom 25%
Likes	59	#22	bottom 2%
Engagement rate	0.34%	#19	bottom 16%
Save rate	0.021%	#20	bottom 11%

Growth

One read so far

Views23.6K

Age at our read83 days

Views per day of life284views divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

Google's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Jul 21, 2026

Google posts Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs 3 Flash bar chart

The bar chart drew 23.6K views and a 0.34% engagement rate, below the AI chart median on both.

What happened

Google published a bar chart on July 21, 2026 comparing Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with 3 Flash. The post carried 2 charts, including Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs 3.1 Flash-Lite Benchmarks, and came the same day as a post on Gemini 3.6 Flash performance across agentic benchmarks.

The numbers

It reached 23.6K views, #682 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts. Its score of 28 ranked #936 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #22 of 22 Google posts.

The lesson

A 2-model bar chart saved at 0.021%, 0.28x the AI chart median: the chart shows 49.6% to 54.2% on Agentic Software Tasks and 65.1% to 74% on Computer Use, and readers kept it at the 10th percentile.

What it means

At #22 of 22 Google posts and 0.32x the 73.2K company median, this chart post sits below Google's own chart posts and below the 39.9K AI chart median.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what Google posted next

Data and API

4 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 97%

Series	Group	Value	Read
3 Flash	Agentic Software Tasks	49.6 %	printed
3.5 Flash-Lite	Agentic Software Tasks	54.2 %	printed
3 Flash	Computer Use	65.1 %	printed
3.5 Flash-Lite	Computer Use	74 %	printed

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/a653d4dd7e9e.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a653d4dd7e9e.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a653d4dd7e9e.skill.md

Make one like this Open the post JSON Chart data JSON Skill file API docs

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id a653d4dd7e9e.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a653d4dd7e9e`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a653d4dd7e9e/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a653d4dd7e9e/render?view=1`	The draw-only view this page uses	Open
POST	`/mcp`	Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents	Max

curlMax

curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/a653d4dd7e9e/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

Claude CodeMax

claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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