Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Our previous-generation Flash model, balancing speed and multimodal capabilities across general agentic and everyday tasks

Stable (GA), previous generation● Re-checked 12 Oct 2026 · 22 facts · 0 corrections · 1 unconfirmedSource: Gemini 3.6 Flash Model Card (7 pp)

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$882 /month

$17.64 per 1K requests

RAG over docs: 12K in · 600 out · 50K requests/mo · 30% cached · change

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Where to call it

Gemini APIgemini-3.6-flash
Google Vertex AIgemini-3.6-flash

Supports

Structured outputs
Tool calling
Web search
Batch API
Image input
PDF input
Prompt caching

Full feature support

Good for

Agentic workflows
Complex video reasoning
Coding tasks

Replaced by

Gemini 3.8 Flash$1.50 / $7.50

This model: $1.50 / $7.50 per 1M tokens

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Overview

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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Our previous-generation Flash model, balancing speed and multimodal capabilities across general agentic and everyday tasks

Cost: $1.50 in
Context: 1M

Input / output: $1.50 / $7.50
Max output: 64K
Knows up to: March 2026
Released: 21 Jul 2026

An addition to the Gemini 3 series of natively multimodal reasoning models. Google's workhorse model, with better coding, knowledge work and multimodal performance than Gemini 3.5 Flash while using tokens more efficiently. p.2

gemini-3.6-flash

Input / output per 1M: $1.50 / $7.50
Context window: 1M
Max output: 64K
Knows up to: March 2026
Reasoning: Dynamic, thinking_level minimal / low / medium / high
Weights: Closed

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