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Gemini 3.6 Flash: price, performance and context

Proprietary Gemini 3.6 Flash by Google costs $0.75 per 1M input and $3.75 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 1M tokens in one request (≈ 3,100 pages of text) and scores 34 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 38 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with one provider, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:45 UTC · google/gemini-3.6-flash

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$0.75
Output / 1M tokens
$3.75
Context window
1M tokens
Max. output
65.5K tokens
Performance index
34 points · rank 38 of 212
Coding index
69.2 points · rank 25 of 119
Agentic index
29 points · rank 29 of 91
Cost at your usage
$1.688 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Jul 21, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling, Files

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0024,800
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0025,900
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0042,300
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0081,300
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.083120

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