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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Name: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Author: Google DeepMind

Free

Token-efficient multimodal model for coding, agents, and knowledge work

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google DeepMind's latest Flash-tier model designed for speed and efficiency. It delivers 17% fewer output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash while improving quality across coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks. The model features a 1M token context window, supports text, image, video, and audio inputs, and includes computer use capabilities as a built-in tool for agentic workflows.

Who it's for

developersAI agentscoding assistantsdocument processorsknowledge workersmultimodal applications

Pricing · usage-based

checked Jul 22, 2026

Plan	Price	Includes
Pay-as-you-go API	Free	$1.50 per million input tokens · $7.50 per million output tokens · Supports prompt caching and batch processing for cost reduction

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Use it for

— Building production AI agents with lower token costs
— Coding and code generation tasks
— Document analysis and knowledge extraction
— Agentic workflows requiring multi-step reasoning
— Multimodal content processing (text, image, video, audio)
— Real-time applications requiring low latency

Get the most out of it

01Use prompt caching to reduce costs by 30-80% on repeated contexts
02For high-throughput tasks, consider Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite ($0.30/$2.50) as a lower-cost alternative
03Leverage the built-in computer use tool via the Gemini API for better agentic automation without custom implementations
04Monitor output token efficiency—3.6 Flash produces fewer tokens than 3.5 Flash for equivalent tasks, yielding savings beyond the price reduction
05Access through Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, or the Gemini API for immediate integration

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