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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the Gemini model Google released on 21 July 2026 and called its workhorse: better coding, knowledge work and multimodal results than 3.5 Flash, fewer output tokens, built-in computer use and tiered pricing.

Status AvailableModality Text, Image, Audio, Video Era Generative AI for everyone

License
Proprietary
Access
API, App, Enterprise
Release date
Developer
Google DeepMind

What it is

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a Gemini model that Google released on 21 July 2026. The release was announced in a post by Tulsee Doshi, and Google described the model as its "workhorse model" — the one expected to carry the bulk of everyday work rather than top the lineup. The same post said it improved on coding, knowledge work and multimodal performance.[1][2]

Measured against 3.5 Flash

Google compared the new model with 3.5 Flash on four benchmarks. It scored 49% against 37% on DeepSWE, 63.9% against 49.7% on MLE-Bench, 83.0% against 78.4% on OSWorld-Verified, and 1421 against 1349 on GDPval-AA v2.[1] These are the figures Google published. Benchmark scores are good for comparing two versions of a model on the same tasks, but they say less about how a model behaves on the particular work a given team has.

Fewer output tokens

On the Artificial Analysis Index the model used 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash, and on some benchmarks up to 65% fewer.[1] Output tokens are the units of text a model generates, and API bills are usually charged per token, so producing the same answer in fewer tokens lowers cost and often shortens response time.

Computer use as a built-in tool

Computer use became a built-in client-side tool in the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise.[1] Tools are how a model acts on the world outside the conversation: the model asks for an action and the software around it carries the action out. Making computer use a built-in client-side tool means the calling application runs that loop itself, with the model issuing the steps, instead of the developer assembling the plumbing from scratch.

Where it is available

The model shipped in the Gemini API, Antigravity, Gemini Enterprise and the Gemini app, where users pick "3.6 Flash" from the model list.[1][4] Google's release notes for 21 July 2026 said 3.6 Flash was being brought to all Gemini app users worldwide.[4]

Pricing

Launch pricing was $1.50 per 1 million input tokens and $7.50 per 1 million output tokens.[1] The pricing page later listed an introductory rate of $0.75 and $3.75 through 31 December 2026.[3] Two other tiers had their own schedules. Batch and Flex pricing was $0.375 per 1 million input tokens and $1.875 per 1 million output tokens through 31 December 2026, rising to $0.75 and $3.75 from 1 January 2027,[3] while Priority pricing was $1.35 per 1 million input tokens and $6.75 per 1 million output tokens through 31 December 2026, rising to $2.70 and $13.50 from 1 January 2027.[3] Such tiers generally trade price against how quickly a request is served or whether it is batched.

What the release signalled

The same post said that pre-training for Gemini 4 had begun, on what Google called its most ambitious run yet.[1]

CapabilitiesLarge language modelsCodeAgents & tool use

Version history

21
  1. 2022
    • Apr 4, 2022 PaLM

      PaLM is a 540-billion-parameter dense Transformer language model announced by Google Research in April 2022, trained with the Pathways system across 6,144 TPU v4 chips; it set strong few-shot results on many benchmarks.

  2. 2023
    • May 10, 2023 PaLM 2

      PaLM 2 is Google's second-generation Pathways language model, announced on 10 May 2023 in four sizes and used across more than 25 Google products, including Bard.

    • Dec 6, 2023 Gemini 1.0 (Ultra, Pro, Nano)

      Gemini 1.0 is the first generation of Google DeepMind's multimodal model family, announced on 6 December 2023 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes; Google reported its Ultra version as the first model to beat human experts on MMLU.

  3. 2024
    • Feb 15, 2024 Gemini 1.5 Pro

      A mid-size multimodal model in Google's Gemini 1.5 generation, announced in February 2024, known for a context window that reached one million tokens and later two million.

    • May 14, 2024 Gemini 1.5 Flash

      Gemini 1.5 Flash is a lightweight, fast model in Google's Gemini 1.5 family, announced on 14 May 2024 and trained by distillation from 1.5 Pro, with a 1-million-token context window.

    • Dec 11, 2024 Gemini 2.0 Flash

      Gemini 2.0 Flash is the first model of Google's Gemini 2.0 generation, released as an experimental model in December 2024 with multimodal output and native tool calling, and made generally available in February 2025.

  4. 2025
    • Feb 5, 2025 Gemini 2.0 Pro

      An experimental Google model released in February 2025 as part of the Gemini 2.0 family, described by Google as its best yet for coding and complex prompts, with a 2-million-token context window and tool use.

    • Mar 25, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro

      Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google's first model in the Gemini 2.5 family, released in March 2025 as a "thinking model" with a 1-million-token context window, debuting at number one on LMArena.

    • Apr 17, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash

      A model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, released in preview in April 2025 and generally available that June. Google called it its first fully hybrid reasoning model, letting developers turn thinking on or off with a token budget.

    • Jun 17, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

      Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the lowest-cost model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, built for high-throughput work such as classification and summarisation, with thinking off by default and a controllable thinking budget.

    • Nov 18, 2025 Gemini 3 Pro

      Gemini 3 Pro is the first model of Google's Gemini 3 generation, released in preview in November 2025 with a 1-million-token context window and top-ranked results on arena leaderboards and reasoning, coding and multimodal benchmarks.

    • Dec 17, 2025 Gemini 3 Flash

      Gemini 3 Flash is a fast, lower-cost model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released on 17 December 2025. It scored close to Gemini 3 Pro on several benchmarks while using fewer tokens and costing far less per token.

  5. 2026
    • Feb 19, 2026 Gemini 3.1 Pro

      Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google's preview upgrade to Gemini 3 Pro, released on 19 February 2026, scoring a verified 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 and shipped through the Gemini API, the Gemini app and NotebookLM.

    • Mar 3, 2026 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

      Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a low-cost, low-latency multimodal model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released in preview in March 2026 and generally available from May 2026 for high-frequency, lightweight tasks.

    • May 19, 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash

      Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's first Gemini 3.5 model, announced on 19 May 2026 and built for agentic and coding work; it became the default model in the Gemini app and in AI Mode in Search.

    • Jul 21, 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

      The fastest model in Google's Gemini 3.5 series, released in July 2026 for high-throughput agentic work, and slated to replace gemini-3.1-flash-lite and take over traffic from gemini-2.5-flash.

    • Jul 21, 2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash · This page

      Gemini 3.6 Flash is the Gemini model Google released on 21 July 2026 and called its workhorse: better coding, knowledge work and multimodal results than 3.5 Flash, fewer output tokens, built-in computer use and tiered pricing.

    • Aug 13, 2026 Gemini 3.7 Flash

      A Google model released on 13 August 2026 as its most intelligent workhorse for coding and agents, priced with a scheduled increase and superseded three weeks later by 3.8 Flash.

    • Sep 2, 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash

      Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's fast, low-cost model released on 2 September 2026, alongside a cybersecurity variant, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, with introductory pricing that doubles at the start of 2027.

    • Oct 13, 2026 Gemini 4 Argon

      Gemini 4 Argon is the first model in Google's Gemini 4 family, announced on 30 September 2026 and made generally available on 13 October 2026, built for long multi-step work and shipped with a one-million-token output limit.

    • Oct 28, 2026 Gemini 4 Carbon

      Gemini 4 Carbon is a Google DeepMind frontier model announced on 28 October 2026, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, with Google claiming state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

20261

  1. ReleaseGoogle releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber

    On 21 July 2026 Google announced three Gemini models at once: Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and faster 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, a security-focused variant limited to governments and trusted partners.

Developed by1

Google DeepMind

Successor of1

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Succeeded by1

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Powers2

Gemini appGoogle Antigravity

Uses2

Chain of thought and reasoning modelsTransformer

Notes and sources

  1. Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyberhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/
  2. Gemini API: Deprecationshttps://aistudio.google.com/docs/deprecations
  3. Gemini Developer API pricinghttps://aistudio.google.com/docs/pricing
  4. Gemini Apps release updates & improvementshttps://gemini.google/release-notes/

Cite this page: Gemini 3.6 Flash. TellWorld, https://www.tellworld.net/models/gemini-3-6-flash. Updated 2026-11-08