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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Previous-generation Gemini 3 Flash model (GA July 2026) for agentic, coding and multimodal tasks. Text, image, video, audio and PDF input, text output, 1,048,576-token input and 65,536-token output limits.

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Key specs

Provider
Google
Family
Gemini 3
API identifier
gemini-3.6-flash
Availability
Available
Release date
2026-07-21
License
Proprietary (Gemini API Additional Terms of Service)
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Knowledge cutoff
March 2026
API access
Yes
Consumer app
Yes

Capabilities

Inputs

  • Text input Yes
  • Image input Yes
  • Audio input Yes
  • Video input Yes
  • File input Yes PDF input

Outputs

  • Text output Yes
  • Image output No Image generation: not supported
  • Audio output No Audio generation: not supported

Features

  • Reasoning Native Thinking on by default (medium); thinking_level minimal, low, medium or high. The thinking table lists even a minimal default as 'On', and no setting to turn thinking off is documented for Gemini 3 models
  • Tool calling Yes Function calling supported
  • Web search Yes Grounding with Google Search supported (billed per search request)

"Unknown" means we have not verified this capability yet; it does not mean the model lacks it.

DimensionTierPriceSinceVerifiedSource
Input tokens base $0.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Standard, paid tier. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.50 from 2027-01-01
Cached input tokens base $0.075 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Context caching price. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $0.15 from 2027-01-01
Cache storage base $0.50 per 1M tokens per hour 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Context caching storage price (per 1M tokens per hour). Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.00 from 2027-01-01
Output tokens base $3.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $7.50 from 2027-01-01
Batch input tokens base $0.375 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard). Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $0.75 from 2027-01-01
Batch output tokens base $1.875 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Batch API price as listed on pricing page (50% of Standard), includes thinking tokens. Introductory price through 2026-12-31; $3.75 from 2027-01-01
Tool and search requests Grounding with Google Maps $14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then USD 14 per 1,000 search queries
Grounding with Google Search $14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12 2026-10-25 Gemini Developer API pricing Paid tier: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then this price; each Google Search query triggered by a request is charged

Prices are shown in the currency the provider publishes; we never convert currencies.

Price history (8 entries)
DimensionTierPriceFromUntil
Input tokensbase$0.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cached input tokensbase$0.075 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Cache storagebase$0.50 per 1M tokens per hour 2026-10-12current
Output tokensbase$3.75 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Batch input tokensbase$0.375 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Batch output tokensbase$1.875 per 1M tokens 2026-10-12current
Tool and search requestsGrounding with Google Maps$14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12current
Tool and search requestsGrounding with Google Search$14.00 per 1,000 requests 2026-10-12current

Benchmarks

BenchmarkSettingScoreReported byMeasuredVerifiedSource
AutomationBench % tasks completed correctly, higher is better v1.0.6; high effort 17.05 % Third party — 2026-10-25 AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
v1.0.6; low effort 15.68 % Third party — 2026-10-25 AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
v1.0.6; medium effort 16.44 % Third party — 2026-10-25 AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
CharXiv Reasoning accuracy %, higher is better reasoning questions; no tools; effort not stated 85.2 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Gemini 3.6 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
reasoning questions; with tools (search and code execution); effort not stated 89.4 % Self-reported — 2026-10-25 Gemini 3.6 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
DeepSWE v1.1 % resolved (pass@1), higher is better v1.1; high effort; mini-swe-agent harness 47 % Third party — 2026-10-25 DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) accuracy %, higher is better Tiers 1-3 v2; high effort; Epoch harness (Python tool) 58.9 % Third party 2026-08-02 2026-10-25 FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
GDPval-AA v2.1 Elo, higher is better v2.1; high effort; Artificial Analysis Stirrup agent harness 1,286 Elo Third party 2026-10-25 2026-10-25 GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
Text Arena Arena score, higher is better Overall, style control on; high effort 1,483 Third party 2026-10-23 2026-10-25 Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)
AutomationBench caveats:

Leaderboard versions (for example 1.0.5 and 1.0.6) are not comparable. Some results use fallback routing for refused steps: for "Claude Fable 5.1 (with Opus 5 Fallback)", Opus 5 handled 260 of 657 tasks. Artificial Analysis runs a separate leaderboard, AutomationBench-AA, which uses a guardrail-adjusted metric; its scores are not comparable with Zapier's. The partial_credit metric is for diagnostics only. The leaderboard shows no per-row evaluation dates.

CharXiv Reasoning caveats:

There is no maintained public leaderboard (the project site says it is under construction), so almost all current numbers are self-reported by providers. Results with tools such as a code interpreter are much higher than without: Alibaba reports 83.7% without and 90.2% with tools for Qwen3.8-27B. Top models now exceed the human baseline, so differences at the top are small and may reflect label noise. Descriptive-question scores are a different metric and must not be recorded here.

DeepSWE v1.1 caveats:

The official leaderboard uses mini-swe-agent for all models and shows whole-number percentages with margins of about ±1 to ±6 points. Providers often report scores from their own scaffolds or effort settings; DeepSeek reports 65.5% to 74.2% for the same model depending on the scaffold. DeepSWE v1 scores are not comparable with v1.1. With only 113 tasks, small differences are within noise.

FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) caveats:

FrontierMath was developed with funding from OpenAI, which has exclusive access to a subset of the problems. Scores from v1 and from Tier 4 (a separate 43-problem expansion set) are not comparable with Tiers 1-3 (v2). The best models score about 94%, so the benchmark separates mid-size models better than it separates frontier models. Epoch's numbers come from its own harness (Python tool, 1M-token limit), which can differ from providers' internal setups. Margins are about ±1.4 to ±2.6 points.

GDPval-AA v2.1 caveats:

Elo is a relative rating: values change as models are added and the scale is re-anchored, so always store the date a rating was read. For example, Anthropic's launch page gives 1846 for Claude Opus 5.5, while the leaderboard on 2026-10-12 shows 1866 (Max, Default Fallback). Earlier versions (Google cites "GDPVal-AA v2") are not comparable. Judging is done by an LLM, not by human experts. Anthropic models are listed with "Default Fallback", meaning refused steps are routed to a fallback model. AA-Briefcase and GDP.pdf are separate evaluations.

Text Arena caveats:

Scores measure voter preference, which can be influenced by answer style and length. The leaderboard offers a style-control adjustment, so record which view was used. Scores shift with every update, so a value is only meaningful together with its leaderboard date. Entries marked "Preliminary" or with few votes have wide confidence intervals. The same model can appear several times with different reasoning-effort suffixes (for example -high or -max). Category views (Coding, Math, Creative Writing and others) are different rankings from Overall.

One row per result, without rank numbers: each result was measured under its own setting (effort level, harness, tools, test version), as stated by the source, and scores compare only within the same setting. Self-reported results come from the provider and have not been reproduced independently.

Rankings

Derived from our published ranking snapshots; each ranking explains its criteria and weights.

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Guides

About Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash (gemini-3.6-flash) became generally available on 21 July 2026; Google now describes it as its previous-generation Flash model. It targets code generation, agentic execution and multimodal tasks, and accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input with text output. Thinking is on by default at the medium level, with minimal, low and high also available. It was rolled out to all Gemini app users in July 2026 and is listed under the Google AI Plus plan.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • 1,048,576-token input context and 65,536-token output limit
  • Accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input
  • Supports function calling, code execution, file search, Google Search and Google Maps grounding, URL context, structured outputs and computer use (preview)
  • Thinking level adjustable from minimal to high (default medium)

Weaknesses

  • Text output only; no image or audio generation
  • Described by Google as its previous-generation Flash model; Gemini 3.8 Flash has the same current list prices
  • Current prices are introductory until 2026-12-31; Standard list prices double from 2027-01-01

Sources

  1. Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini API
  2. Gemini deprecations
  3. Gemini 3.6 Flash model card - Google DeepMind
  4. Gemini API Additional Terms of Service | Google AI for Developers
  5. Gemini thinking | Gemini API
  6. Gemini Developer API pricing
  7. DeepSWE leaderboard (Datacurve)
  8. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) leaderboard (Epoch AI)
  9. GDPval-AA v2.1 Leaderboard (Artificial Analysis)
  10. AutomationBench AI benchmark leaderboard (Zapier)
  11. Text Arena leaderboard (Arena)

Last verified Page updated 2026-10-26