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Gemini 3.6 Flash
google·google/gemini-3.6-flash·GA·Closed·gemini-flash series·NEW
Fast Gemini model balancing multimodal reasoning, tool use, and cost
At a glance
Official price$0.75 / $3.75 per 1M
Cache read $0.075 · Vertex
Lowest paid$0.75 / $3.75
Cortecs Gateway · 2.5× spread
Context1,048,576
⚠ Providers report 1,000,000–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImageAudioVideoPDF
Knowledge cutoff2026-03
Released / updated2026-07-21 / 2026-07-21
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier high
Intelligence51.6
Value34
Coding69.2
Agentic40.5
Output speed199 tok/s
TTFT18.47 s
Cost per task$0.3442
Value formulaIQ 51.6 ÷ min blended $1.500 = 34
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 21 providers21 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.038 | 1,048,576 | 1,048,576 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.042 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| VertexOfficial | First-party | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.042 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.042 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.042 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.083 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | $0.042 | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $1.35 | $6.30 | $0.135 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,535 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Cortecs$256.50
2NanoGPT$256.50
3Vertex · Official$256.50
4OpenRouter$256.50
5Vercel AI Gateway$256.50
6Eden AI$256.50
Switch to Cortecs to save $0.00/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark10 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Pro | harness: Antigravity | 58.7 | resolve rate | Source ↗ |
| DeepSWE | variant: high reasoning · v1.1 | 49 | resolve rate | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench | harness: Terminus 2 · v2.1 | 78 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| MLE-Bench | dataset: Partial 30 | 63.9 | average position score | Source ↗ |
| GDPval-AA | vv2 | 1421 | Elo | Source ↗ |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 83 | success rate | Source ↗ |
| CharXiv Reasoning | variant: no tools | 85.2 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| CharXiv Reasoning | variant: with tools | 89.4 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| GDM-MRCR | variant: 128k average, 8-needle · vv2 | 91.8 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
| GDM-MRCR | variant: 1M pointwise, 8-needle · vv2 | 54 | accuracy | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = minimaleffort = noneeffort = maxbudget_tokens ≥ 256 ≤ 32,000Toggle (on / off)
2 / 21 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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