Gemini 3.6 Flash
Stable, no shutdown date; superseded by 3.7 and 3.8 Flash. Recommended replacement for gemini-3-flash-preview per deprecations page. Output limit not re-checked (assumed 65,536 like siblings, omitted).
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio, video, pdf
- Output
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- input: $0.75 · output: $3.75 (per 1M tokens (Standard tier, current introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01, which was its launch price)) source
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API | gemini-3.6-flash | https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent | docs |
| Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Vertex AI) | — | — | docs |
| OpenRouter | google/gemini-3.6-flash | — | — |
Notable capabilities (2)
- Token-efficient agentic coding: Uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash with better coding/multimodal results and fewer unwanted edits. source
- Computer-use agents: 83.0% on OSWorld-Verified (vs 78.4% for 3.5 Flash). source
July 2026 Flash release, launched together with 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Use gemini-3.8-flash for new projects.
curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent" \
-H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"contents":[{"parts":[{"text":"Hello"}]}]}'
Sources: models, pricing, deprecations, launch blog.
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