Credit: Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DRGoogle’s Android Bench results show Gemini 3.5 Flash trailing older models despite its premium positioning.Gemini 3.5 Flash missed the top five, while OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 claimed first place and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview outperformed its successor.Google’s newest Flash model scored 63.7 and became the most expensive option in the rankings, averaging $147.1 per run.Google has just refreshed its Android Bench rankings, and the results present developers with a puzzling picture. Google’s new Gemini 3.5 Flash is actively falling behind its predecessor while charging you three times the price to use it.The latest Android coding leaderboard, a benchmark that evaluates how well different AI models can perform Android development tasks, introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash for the first time, but the newcomer didn’t make it into the top five. Topping the list was OpenAI’s GPT 5.5, which scored 74, followed by GPT 5.4 and an older Google model, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, both with 72.4. The new Claude Opus models also outperformed the Flash variant.