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Google's Gemini Flash 5.6 model cuts AI agent token costs by up to 65% on long horizon engineering tasks —and 3.5 Pro is on the way

VentureBeat AI·July 21, 2026

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Google released three new token-efficient AI models—Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber—designed to reduce costs and improve performance for AI agents on complex tasks. The new models offer significantly lower pricing, with Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens and Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50, while delivering up to 65% cost reductions on long-horizon engineering tasks.

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Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per one million input tokens and $7.50 per one million output tokens through its application programming interface (API), while Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite costs a staggeringly cheap $0.30/$2.50 per million to

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