GoogleReleased on Jul 21, 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a language model from Google, released in July 2026, with multimodal input, a 1.0M-token context window, and pricing from $1.50/M input and $7.50/M output.

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's workhorse multimodal reasoning model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and spatial reasoning. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs, a 1 million-token context window, and a 65,536-token text

Input
TextImageAudioVideo
Output
Text

Gemini 3.6 Flash benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

Gemini 3.6 Flash Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Gemini 3.6 Flash pricing

Providers

Gemini 3.6 Flash starts at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens via Google.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p50 / p95 sOutput avg / p5 c/sSuccess 7dModalities in / out
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$1.50$7.501.0M/65.5K
1.84/1.84
16/16
100.00%(1)
/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests. Success is calculated from completed versus failed requests over the trailing seven days.

Gemini 3.6 Flash context window

Input and output token limits for Gemini 3.6 Flash, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
1.0Mtokens
66Ktokens
1.6k pages of text
1.0M
8K128K1M

Gemini 3.6 Flash API

POST/v1/chat/completions

Run a request to see the response

Use it in your code

Billed at $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemini-3.6-flash",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.

Gemini 3.6 Flash latency

Gemini 3.6 Flash time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Provider operational metrics

Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic

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Gemini 3.6 Flash examples

Recent arena outputs from Gemini 3.6 Flash, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Gemini 3.6 Flash license

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of March 2026.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
March 2026

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

Gemini 3.6 Flash resources

Official sources for Gemini 3.6 Flash: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Gemini 3.6 Flash are Claude Opus 4.8, Qwen3.7 Max, MiMo-V2-Pro. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Gemini 3.6 Flash

Models ranked just above and below Gemini 3.6 Flash by LLM Stats score.

 

Claude Opus 4.8

Score pending
 

Qwen3.7 Max

Score pending
 

MiMo-V2-Pro

Score pending
 

Gemma 4 31B

Score pending
 

Muse Spark 1.1

Score pending
 

Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Gemini 3.6 Flash.

When was Gemini 3.6 Flash released?

Gemini 3.6 Flash was released on July 21, 2026 by Google. This is the official Gemini 3.6 Flash release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost?

Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens through the LLM Stats API, which works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK. Across tracked providers, the lowest price is $1.50 per million input tokens via Google.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash available via API?

Yes. Gemini 3.6 Flash is available through the LLM Stats API and works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point your client at the gateway base URL and pass the model name. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash was created by Google.

What is the license for Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has a knowledge cutoff of March 2026, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash multimodal?

Yes, Gemini 3.6 Flash is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Gemini 3.6 Flash latency?

Gemini 3.6 Flash p95 time to first token is 1.84 seconds via Google over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is available through 1 provider including Google.

Where is the Gemini 3.6 Flash paper or technical report?

Gemini 3.6 Flash has a paper or technical report available at https://deepmind.google/models/evals-methodology/gemini-3-6-flash/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Gemini 3.6 Flash against?

Common Gemini 3.6 Flash comparisons include Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen3.7 Max, Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiMo-V2-Pro. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.