Gemini 3.6 Flash

The successor to Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google's workhorse model for agentic coding, knowledge work and multimodal tasks.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 66K
Cutoff: Mar 2026
Released: Jul 2026

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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.75 /1M
Output: $3.75 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Gemini 3.6 Flash, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Gemini 3.6 Flash, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Google Cloud Creator	$0.75	$3.75	$0.08	$15.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Gemini 3.6 Flash by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 3.6 Flash per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Gemini 3.6 Flash
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking Alibaba Cloud	$1.00	$0.40	$4.00	262K		−20%
Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI	$1.0333	$0.60	$3.20	262K		−17%
Grok Build 0.1 xAI	$1.1667	$1.00	$2.00	256K		−7%
Command A+ Cohere	$1.20	$0.80	$3.20	128K		−4%
GLM-5.1 Z.AI	$1.2417	$0.83	$3.30	205K		−1%
Gemini 3.6 Flash This model Google Cloud	$1.25	$0.75	$3.75	1M	Mar 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash Google Cloud	$1.25	$0.75	$3.75	1M	Mar 2026	0%
Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Cloud	$1.25	$0.75	$3.75	1M	Mar 2026	0%
Qwen3-Max Alibaba Cloud	$1.2717	$0.85	$3.38	262K		+2%
GPT-5.4 Mini OpenAI	$1.375	$0.75	$4.50	400K	Aug 2025	+10%
Kimi K2.7 Code Moonshot AI	$1.375	$0.90	$3.75	262K		+10%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts and can do, as published by Google Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Audio Accepts audio as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.

Common questions

What is Gemini 3.6 Flash good for?

Agent coding, knowledge work and multimodal tasks. It succeeds Gemini 3.5 Flash and is Google's named replacement for Gemini 2.0 Flash.

When is Gemini 3.6 Flash not a good fit?

Budget-driven, high-volume work: it sits above the Flash-Lite models in Google's price range. Closed weights, so no self-hosting, and output is text only.

What is the cheapest way to run Gemini 3.6 Flash?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.75 / $3.75 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.

How does Gemini 3.6 Flash compare with Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Google says Gemini 3.7 Flash comes from developer feedback and algorithmic improvements, and beats Gemini 3.6 Flash at debugging and issue fixing, builds more complete apps in fewer prompts, and follows instructions more faithfully. Same price, 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 3.6 Flash came out a month earlier.

Can I self-host Gemini 3.6 Flash?

No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 3.6 Flash is available only through hosted APIs.