Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash is a Google model that accepts text, image, video, audio, and file inputs, with completions of up to 65,536 tokens. Its context window of 1,048,576 tokens allows large documents or extensive multimodal material to be handled in a single request. It supports tool calling and reasoning. Structured output support is not listed in the available data, so confirm it before relying on schema-constrained responses. At $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, output costs five times as much as input. Workloads that send long inputs and receive short answers will get the most from this rate. Teams that need multimodal input, long context, and tool use from one model should shortlist it. There is no independent benchmark coverage yet, so its quality relative to alternatives is unproven. Run your own evaluations on representative tasks before committing.
- Model ID
- google/gemini-3.6-flash
- Vendor
- Released
- July 2026
- Tokenizer
- Gemini
- Input Modalities
- text, image, video, file, audio
- Output Modalities
- text
- Max Output
- 65,536 tokens
- Tool Calling
- ✓ supported
- Structured Output
- ✓ supported
- Reasoning Mode
- ✓ supported
- Vision
- ✓ accepts images
- Audio
- ✓ accepts audio
- Moderated
- no
What it costs in practice
Computed from the current $0.75/M input and $3.75/M output rates. Run your own numbers →
| Job | Tokens | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize a 50-page report | 30k in / 1.5k out | $0.03 |
| Classify 1,000 customer emails | 500k in / 50k out | $0.56 |
| A month of a busy support chatbot | 5M in / 2M out | $11.25 |
Price & spec history
Tracked daily by PicksByModel since 2026-07-22.
| Date | Input /M | Output /M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1,048,576 |
| 2026-07-22 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 1,048,576 |
Category rankings
Where Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash places across the 4 categories it ranks in. How we rank →
| # | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|
| #9 | TranscriptionVoice · of 25 ranked | 123 |
| #14 | TTS ReplacementVoice · of 25 ranked | 115 |
| #23 | Audio SummarizationVoice · of 25 ranked | 139 |
| #24 | Video Auto-TaggingVideo · of 25 ranked | 123 |
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Quick answers
- How much does Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash cost?
- $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
- What is Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash's context window?
- 1,048,576 tokens, roughly 1,572 pages of text in a single request.
- Does Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash support tool calling?
- It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
- Can Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash process images?
- Yes, it accepts image input.