Gemini 3.6 Flash

As of October 26, 2026, Gemini 3.6 Flash by Google costs $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M-token context window. It ranks 4th of 29 models on the TensorFeed Intelligence Index's older 2024 benchmark set, with a score of 78.1 (as of October 31, 2026).

Gemini 3.6 Flash went generally available on July 21, 2026, and the pitch is efficiency rather than raw intelligence. The model id is gemini-3.6-flash. It launched at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output, a cut from the $9.00 output rate on Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Google has since put it on the same introductory schedule as 3.8 Flash: $0.75 and $3.75 through December 31, 2026, then back to $1.50 and $7.50 from January 1, 2027. On October 8, 2026 Google deprecated Gemini 3.5 Flash and began routing its API requests here, which makes 3.6 Flash the destination for that traffic rather than a model on its way out. It carries a 1,048,576 token input window, up to 65,536 output tokens, and takes text, image, audio, video, and PDF input. Google says it is built directly on Gemini 3.5 Flash and consumes 17 percent fewer output tokens on the Artificial Analysis Index, with up to 65 percent fewer on DeepSWE. Google's published gains over 3.5 Flash are DeepSWE 49 percent against 37, MLE-Bench 63.9 against 49.7, OSWorld-Verified 83.0 against 78.4, and GDPval-AA v2 at 1421 Elo against 1349. The honest caveat is that Artificial Analysis scored the Intelligence Index flat at 50, identical to 3.5 Flash, while measuring average time per task falling from 2.7 minutes to 1.3 and measured cost per task from $0.59 to $0.50. Read it as a per-task economics upgrade for existing Flash workloads, not a capability jump. Computer use is now a built-in client-side tool through the Gemini API, and the knowledge cutoff is March 2026. Day-one availability spans Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Android Studio, Google Antigravity, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and the Gemini app.