Gemini 3.6 Flash API Pricing — $1.50/M input, $9.00/M output
Latest-generation Flash: even faster than 3.5, with 1M context and top-tier coding and agentic performance.
Speed
Tokens / sec
114
TTFT
310 ms
Rank
#14 of 31
$ / M ÷ t/s
$0.03
Measured with 5 runs on a fixed prompt — see the full methodology.
Cost at scale
| Tokens / month | Est. cost (blended 3:1) |
|---|---|
| 100,000 | $0.34 |
| 1,000,000 | $3.38 |
| 10,000,000 | $33.75 |
| 100,000,000 | $337.50 |
How Gemini 3.6 Flash compares
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite — $0.18/MGemini 3.5 Flash Lite — $0.56/MGemini 3.1 Flash Lite — $0.56/MGemini 2.5 Flash — $0.85/MGemini 3.1 Flash — $1.69/MGemini 3.5 Flash — $3.38/MGPT-5 — $3.44/MGPT-4.1 — $3.50/M
Head-to-head comparisons
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FAQ
Is Gemini 3.6 Flash cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $3.38/M blended tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $3.38/M — Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper.
How much does 1 million tokens cost with Gemini 3.6 Flash?
At a 3:1 input:output ratio, 1 million blended tokens costs approximately $3.38. Pure input costs $1.50/M; pure output costs $9.00/M.
Who provides Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash is served by Google. Pricing was last verified on 2026-07-22 against https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing.
