Gemini 3.6 Flash

GA/stable ('Stable' on ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models, described there as Google's latest Flash). Added 2026-07-31 after Google's deprecations table began naming it as the migration target for gemini-2.5-flash and the gemini-2.0-flash line. Prices are the paid-tier STANDARD rates from the official pricing page. CORRECTED 2026-08-14: the fields here carried Google's January-2027 column ($1.50/$7.50/$0.15) rather than the rate actually in force. Google prices this model on a two-date schedule: $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M with context caching $0.075/1M 'through December 31, 2026', doubling to $1.50 / $7.50 / $0.15 'starting January 1, 2027'. The per-1M-tokens-per-hour cache STORAGE fee this schema has no field for follows the same schedule — $0.50 through 2026-12-31, $1.00 from 2027-01-01 — and the note here previously gave the 2027 figure for that too. Other published tiers, none of which fit the per-MTok fields either, all on the same two dates: Batch and Flex $0.375/$1.875 (caching $0.0375) then $0.75/$3.75 (caching $0.075); Priority $1.35/$6.75 (caching $0.135) then $2.70/$13.50 (caching $0.27). Grounding with Google Search or Maps: 5,000 requests/month free shared across all Gemini 3.x models, then $14 per 1,000. Spec table gives 1,048,576 input / 65,536 output tokens and inputs text, image, video, audio, PDF. CORRECTED 2026-08-02: the note here previously asserted Google publishes no release date. That was true of the two surfaces it was read from (model page, pricing page) and false about the world — Google's DEPRECATIONS table carries it as data, 'gemini-3.6-flash | July 21, 2026 | No shutdown date announced', and the API changelog entry of 2026-07-21 says the same ('Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite generally available'). released is now 2026-07-21. The knowledge cutoff genuinely is unpublished on all three surfaces and stays null; the model page's 'Latest update July 2026' is a docs-edit date, not a launch. While the promotional window runs it is cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash on BOTH axes, not just output — 3.5 Flash is a flat $1.50 in / $9.00 out with no 2026/2027 split on its own block — so the two Flash rows are not a straight ladder, and the gap closes on 2027-01-01.

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