Pricing · Google

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google's gemini-3.6-flash, 1.0M tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Google's own pricing page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.

Promotional pricing until December 31, 2026. After that date it reverts to list price: $1.50 input and $7.50 output per 1M tokens (cached input $0.15) — roughly 2.0× the current input price. Budget for the change now, not in December.

How Google describes it

“Our previous generation Flash model, balancing speed and multimodal capabilities across general agentic and everyday tasks.”

Pricing

At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50: $0.75 for input and $0.75 for output, at the promotional prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.

Where this price sits

$0.75 per 1M input tokens is the 19th cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 4th of Google's 11. Output costs 5.0× the input price.

Other current models in the Gemini Flash family:

• Gemini 2.5 Flash 1.0M tokens $0.30 in · $2.50 out
• Gemini 3.8 Flash 1.0M tokens $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.0M tokens $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Gemini 3.5 Flash 1.0M tokens $1.50 in · $9.00 out

Other price lists Google publishes for Gemini 3.6 Flash

The prices above are Google's Standard list, the one the table and the calculator use. Google also sells Gemini 3.6 Flash on 3 other lists, each with a condition. Figures and wording are quoted from Google's own pages as read on the date shown; this site computes none of them.

• Batch · 50% of the standard interactive API cost · wait: designed to complete within 24 hours

  Printed for Gemini 3.6 Flash: $0.375 input, $1.875 output, $0.75 input after the promotion ends, $3.75 output after the promotion ends, per 1M tokens.

  Batch API usage is priced at 50% of the standard interactive API cost for the equivalent model. Service level objective (SLO): Batch jobs are designed to complete within a 24-hour turnaround time.

  Source, read September 16, 2026

• Flex · 50% cost reduction compared to standard rates · accept variable latency and best-effort availability

  Printed for Gemini 3.6 Flash: $0.375 input, $1.875 output, $0.75 input after the promotion ends, $3.75 output after the promotion ends, per 1M tokens.

  The Gemini Flex API is an inference tier that offers a 50% cost reduction compared to standard rates, in exchange for variable latency and best-effort availability. Flex traffic is treated with lower priority. If there is a spike in standard traffic, Flex requests may be preempted or evicted to ensure capacity for high-priority users.

  Source, read September 16, 2026

• Priority · no multiplier printed; the page prints the prices · pay more to be prioritized above standard and Flex traffic, in Preview

  Printed for Gemini 3.6 Flash: $1.35 input, $6.75 output, $2.70 input after the promotion ends, $13.50 output after the promotion ends, per 1M tokens.

  The Gemini Priority API is a premium inference tier designed for business-critical workloads that require lower latency and the highest reliability at a premium price point. Preview: The Gemini Priority API is in Preview.

  Source, read September 16, 2026

Mentioned in

3 posts on this site cite Gemini 3.6 Flash. The sentence is the post's own, taken from where it links here.

• Prompt Caching Is Not 10% Everywhere: What a Cache Hit Costs Across Eight Providers · September 16, 2026

  Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.7 Flash and 3.8 Flash are $0.075 cached until December 31, 2026, and Google prints the price after: "$0.15 starting January 1, 2027".

• The Second Price List: What Batch, Flex, Priority and Data-Sharing Discounts Cost Across Seven Providers · September 16, 2026

  On Gemini 2.5 Pro both lanes are $0.625 in and $5.00 out against $1.25 and $10.00; on Gemini 3.6 Flash, $0.375 and $1.875 against a Standard price that is itself promotional until December 31, 2026.

• Five Things Decide What You Pay for a Model, and Only One of Them Is the Model · September 15, 2026

  Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.7 Flash and 3.8 Flash cost $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, verified September 14, 2026.

Recorded price changes

Every change this site has recorded for Gemini 3.6 Flash, with the date it took or takes effect and why. Corrections of our own reading are listed too, and say so.

• January 1, 2027 (announced) · price up 2.0×

  Gemini 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash pricing is promotional until December 31, 2026. On January 1, 2027 it doubles: input from $0.75 to $1.50 and output from $3.75 to $7.50 per million tokens, the list prices Google shows next to the promotional ones.

  Source

Every price change recorded on this site →

Succession

Google names Gemini 3.6 Flash as the replacement for:

• Gemini 2.0 Flash retired shut down June 1, 2026
• Gemini 3 Flash Preview deprecated no shutdown date announced

Against Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the earlier version of the same name in this dataset (still current). Against Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash has input at $0.75 against $1.50, 2× less; output at $3.75 against $9.00, 2.4× less; cached input at $0.075 against $0.15, 2× less (per 1M tokens). Its prices were verified October 1, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash pricing →

Specifications

Gemini 3.6 Flash was released on July 1, 2026. It returns up to 66K tokens per response, against a context window of 1.0M tokens.

Questions about Gemini 3.6 Flash pricing

How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens?

$0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens, read on Google's official pricing page on October 1, 2026.

What does a cached input token cost on Gemini 3.6 Flash?

$0.075 per 1M cached input tokens, 10% of the $0.75 input price.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash's price a promotion?

Yes. $0.75 input and $3.75 output are promotional prices until December 31, 2026; the list price Google publishes for after that is $1.50 input and $7.50 output per 1M tokens.

Verified October 1, 2026 against Google's official pricing page. Confidence: confirmed. How the data is checked.

Other Google models with a verified price

• Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemini Flash-Lite $0.10 in · $0.40 out
• Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini Flash-Lite $0.30 in · $2.50 out
• Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini Flash $0.30 in · $2.50 out
• Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini Flash $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini Flash $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Gemini Robotics ER 2 Preview Gemini Robotics $1.00 in · $5.00 out · promo
• Gemini Robotics ER 2 Streaming Preview Gemini Robotics $1.00 in · $5.00 out · promo
• Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini Pro $1.25 in · $10.00 out
• Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini Flash $1.50 in · $9.00 out
• Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Gemini Pro $2.00 in · $12.00 out

Cheaper or equally priced alternatives

Current models with an input price at or below $0.75 per 1M tokens. The cheapest of these, Qwen3.7-Plus, is 1.9× cheaper on input.

• Gemini 3.8 Flash Google $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Gemini 3.7 Flash Google $0.75 in · $3.75 out · promo
• Mistral Large 3 Mistral $0.50 in · $1.50 out
• Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba (Qwen) $0.40 in · $1.60 out

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