Task
Return an array of exactly five items
Counting its own output while producing structured data — the two failure modes combined.
- Measured
- 2026-09-12 UTC
- Result
- 3 of 3 passed · 3 not asked
- Temperature
- 0
- Prompt size
- 110 chars
| Model | Result | Time | Thinking tokens | What came back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-3.5-flash | not asked | 202ms | not reported | 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED | |
| gemini-2.5-flash-lite | not asked | 256ms | not reported | 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED | |
| gemini-2.5-flash | not asked | 285ms | not reported | 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED | |
| gemini-3.1-flash-lite | pass | 762ms | not reported | red,blue,green,yellow,purple | |
| gemini-3.5-flash-lite | pass | 1,047ms | not reported | Red,Blue,Green,Yellow,Purple | |
| gemini-3-flash-preview | pass | 1,491ms | 143 | Red,Blue,Green,Yellow,Purple |
What happened
3 models could not be asked
gemini-3.5-flash returned 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED
gemini-2.5-flash-lite returned 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED
gemini-2.5-flash returned 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED.
That is a spent quota, not a wrong answer — it is left out of the pass rate rather than counted as a failure.
Every model passed
All 3 models we could reach completed this one. The difference is not capability, it is what each spent to get there.
7.4× between fastest and slowest
gemini-3.5-flash finished in 202ms. gemini-3-flash-preview took 1,491ms for the same prompt.
The exact prompt
Return only a JSON array containing exactly 5 strings, each the name of a colour. No markdown, no explanation.
Pass/fail is decided by code, not by reading the answer. The check for this task is in bench/tasks.mjs, and failed responses are stored verbatim so the verdict can be re-read.