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Gemini 3.6 Flash Pricing

Google · google-gemini-3-6-flash

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.750

Output / 1M tokens

$3.75

Context window

1,048,576 tokens

≈ 1,398 pages of text

Max output

65,536 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0024

1,000 requests / month$2.40/mo 10,000 requests / month$24.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$240.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemini 3.6 Flash preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jul 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.

What it excels at

Handles high-volume text and multimodal workloads with 1M-token context at low cost. Suitable for classification, summarization, and basic vision/audio tasks.

The business tradeoff

Reasoning depth and complex multi-step performance lag behind Gemini flagship models. Output token pricing is relatively high for a speed-oriented tier.

Cheaper from Google

Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)Google$0.0012/ typical request Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle$0.0001/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI$0.0007/ typical request Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic$0.0032/ typical request Llama 3.3 70BMeta$0.0002/ typical request

Head-to-head

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-5.4 Nano →Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5 →Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Llama 3.3 70B →

Vendor list rates, as of Aug 13, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.