Gemini 3.6 Flash

Name: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Author: Google

Reviewed 2026-07-22

Googlegoogle/gemini-3.6-flash

Context: 1.05M
Price: $1.5/$7.5
Tooling: 4/5
Deploy: Cloud API

Best for

Agentic workflows and tool calling
Long documents (~1.05M context)

Skip if

You need open weights to self-host

Capability scores

Tool calling4/5

Multi-step reasoning4/5

Specifications

Context window: 1.05M tokens
VRAM: N/A (cloud-hosted)
License: proprietary
Pricing: $1.5/M input · $7.5/M output
Deployment: Cloud API
Docs: Model docs ↗

Our take

Gemini 3.6 Flash from Google offers a 1.05M-token context window and is well-suited to strong tool calling, multi-step reasoning, long-context work. Pricing is $1.5/M input · $7.5/M output, billed per token through the provider API.

Watch for the trade-offs: weights are closed, so you cannot self-host.

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