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Gemini 3.6 Flash

CTX1.05M

86Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.75/M

Output$3.75/M

Fast Gemini model balancing multimodal reasoning, tool use, and cost

PaidProprietary953/1040

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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Fast Gemini model balancing multimodal reasoning, tool use, and cost

gemini-3.6-flash

Type: Text
Quality: 86 · Top 14% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $0.75 / 1M tokens
Output price: $3.75 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.075 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Jul 21, 2026
Knowledge cutoff: Mar 2026
Takes in: Text, Image, Audio, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 953/1040

Open Google docs Quality 86 Where to run it 31 Evolution 4/6 Meet its creature Battle Qwen3.6 27B

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Google’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: ai.google.dev.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Gemini 3.6 Flash, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 14% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #40.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#40 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.154.2 index
LMArena Text#21 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,479 rating
Listed as gemini-3.6-flash-high
LMArena Text · Coding#34 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,491 rating
Listed as gemini-3.6-flash-high
LMArena Text · Math#11 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,506 rating
Listed as gemini-3.6-flash-high
LMArena Text · Creative writing#20 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,466 rating
Listed as gemini-3.6-flash-high
LMArena WebDev#45 of 144
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,538 rating
Listed as Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)
LMArena Vision#20 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,298 rating
Listed as gemini-3.6-flash-high

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

31 providers sell Gemini 3.6 Flash through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestKilo Gateway$0.38 in · $1.88 out
Free to try1 providerKenari
From the labGoogle$0.75 in · $3.75 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
KenariFree`gemini-3-6-flash`	Free	Free	1.05M
Kilo GatewayCheapest paid`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.38	$1.88	1.05M
Cortecs`gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
CrossModel`gemini/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
Eden AI`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
GitHub Copilot`gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1M
GoogleOfficial`gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
LLM Gateway`google-vertex/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
NanoGPT`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M

Show 21 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Ofox`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
OpenRouter`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
Tempr Gateway`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
Vercel AI Gateway`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1M
Vertex`gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.75	$3.75	1.05M
Poe`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$0.76	$3.79	1.05M
Venice AI`gemini-3-6-flash`	$0.94	$4.69	1M
Requesty`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.00	1.05M
302.AI`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
Abacus`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
AIHubMix`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
CommandCode`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1M
Impossibl`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
Merge Gateway`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
Neon`gemini-3-6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
OpenCode`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
OrcaRouter`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
Pioneer`gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1M
Prime Inference`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.50	$7.50	1.05M
AI/ML API`google/gemini-3.6-flash`	$1.95	$9.75	1.05M
SAP AI Core`gemini-3.6-flash`	—	—	1.05M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash

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Leaderboards

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Where to run it

API providers

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