Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google · Multimodal · Released Jul 2026
Google's text-only multimodal Flash model with a 1M token context window, positioned between the lightweight Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and the multimodal Gemini 3.7 Flash.
- Strengths
- Fast execution and efficient handling of large text workloads within a 1M token context window.
- Best for
- Batch processing and high-throughput text-only tasks that benefit from a large context window without multimodal input support.
- Limitations
- Text-only model with no image, video, or audio support; newer multimodal alternatives like Gemini 3.7 Flash offer richer input types at similar speed.
Input / 1M
$0.75
Output / 1M
$3.75
Cached input / 1M
$0.075
Context window
1.05M
Also billed
- Cache write
- $0.0417 / 1M
- Audio input
- $0.75 / 1M
- Image input
- $0.000001 / image
Price history
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Price change
- 30d
- in decreased 50.0% out decreased 50.0%
- 90d
- in decreased 50.0% out decreased 50.0%
- 1y
- in decreased 50.0% out decreased 50.0%
- Since launch
- in decreased 50.0% out decreased 50.0%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026 | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 21 Jul 2026 | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.15 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |