Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google released 2026-07-21 proprietary
Gemini 3.7 Flash is both better and cheaper.
It scores +4.4 higher and costs 50% less ($0.750/M against $1.50/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is cheaper still (93% less) but drops no image, video, file, audio input.
The same model via batch is 50% cheaper ($0.750/M) — same weights, different latency.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.750/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $3.75/M |
| Cached input | $0.075/M |
| Cache write | $0.042/M |
| Reasoning | $3.75/M |
| Web search | $0.014/call |
| Batch discount | 50% |
Reasoning tokens are billed separately at $3.75/M, on top of output. On a reasoning-heavy workload this can be 40% of the bill and it does not appear in the advertised price.
Independent scores
| Intelligence | 51.6 |
|---|---|
| Coding | 69.2 |
| Agentic | 40.5 |
| LMArena Elo | 1476.5high |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Best rankings by task
- website #5of 151 1323
- agenticgamedev #7of 34 1199
- dataviz #8of 142 1322
- uicomponent #8of 140 1330
- codecategories #9of 145 1319
- asciiart #9of 83 1283
- mobileapps #9of 56 1249
- 3d #10of 136 1324
Capability
| Context window | 1.0M |
|---|---|
| Max output | 66K |
| Input modes | text, image, video, file, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| Open weights | no |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development. It is designed to produce polished outputs with fewer unnecessary edits and...