Gemini 3.6 Flash

Available

Stable multimodal Flash model balancing speed and agentic capabilities.

Access details: Gemini API

The model ID to use in API requests.

gemini-3.6-flash

Updated Oct 20, 2026

Sources & notes

Capabilities & limits

Context window: 1M
Maximum output: 64K
Image input: Supported
Tool calling: Supported
Structured output: Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens

Input: $0.75
Output: $3.75

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Google's pricing page.

Full rate card 8 rates

All prices in USD.

Standard input

$0.75 per 1M tokens

introductory rate through 2026-12-31

Standard output

$3.75 per 1M tokens

includes thinking tokens
introductory rate through 2026-12-31

Cached input

$0.075 per 1M tokens

introductory rate through 2026-12-31

Cache storage

$0.50 per 1M tokens per hour

introductory rate through 2026-12-31

2027 input

$1.50 per 1M tokens

starting 2027-01-01

2027 output

$7.50 per 1M tokens

includes thinking tokens
starting 2027-01-01

2027 cached input

$0.15 per 1M tokens

starting 2027-01-01

2027 cache storage

$1.00 per 1M tokens per hour

starting 2027-01-01

Paid tier. Batch and Flex: $0.375 input / $1.875 output / $0.0375 cached through 2026-12-31, then $0.75 / $3.75 / $0.075. Priority: $1.35 / $6.75 / $0.135 through 2026-12-31, then $2.70 / $13.50 / $0.27. Free tier is free of charge. Grounding with Google Search: 5,000 free requests per month shared across Gemini 3.x models, then $14 per 1,000.

Price history

Jul 21, 2026

Input $0.75 per million tokens

Jan 1, 2027

Input $1.50 per million tokens

Jul 21, 2026

Input $1.50 per million tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Input $0.75 per million tokens

Jul 21, 2026

Output $3.75 per million tokens

Jan 1, 2027

Output $7.50 per million tokens

Jul 21, 2026

Output $7.50 per million tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Output $3.75 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters: Not published
Active parameters: Not published
Architecture: Based on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Training / knowledge cutoff: March 2026
Input modalities: Text, image, video, audio, PDF
Output modalities: Text

From Google

Official announcement ↗

Release & lifecycle

First available: Jul 21, 2026
available: As of Sep 13, 2026
available: As of Oct 20, 2026