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Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's launch-day Flash — faster, cheaper, fewer tokens.
Official vendor source
Gemini 3.6 Flash is built by Google — see the vendor's own product page, pricing, and docs at ai.google.dev.
What is Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash is the Google frontier model with a 1,000,000-token context window context window, released 2026-07. Tagline: Google's launch-day Flash — faster, cheaper, fewer tokens.. Official source: ai.google.dev.
Pricing detail. Launched 2026-07-21 alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Google's pitch: higher intelligence than its predecessors on coding/ML/knowledge tasks while using 17% fewer output tokens, at a new lower price ($1.50 per million input tokens). Benched here via the native Gemini API on launch day.
How I use it inside the Agent OS. Benched via the native Gemini API on launch day. Game tasks use the skill-infused threejs-game-director prompt (same as the rest of the field) and are judged on a real mid-play frame by the same Opus vision judge.
What I built with Gemini 3.6 Flash
Every model on Goldie Bench gets the same fixed prompt set — one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 inside the Agent Operating System. Here's what Gemini 3.6 Flash shipped on the bench: 50 one-shot demos across 1,000,000-token context window of context. Of those, 50 are scored against the field with my honest 0–10 from the source guides at agentos.guide.
Strengths
- Fast one-shot builds — full skill-spec 3D games in ~60-120s of generation
- Cheapest frontier-tier entry on the bench at $1.50/M input
- 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash on the same workflows (Google's launch claim)
Trade-offs
- Benched on launch day — partial run until the full 50-task batch completes
- Flash tier, not a flagship — up against Pro/flagship-class models on this board
Best for
- High-volume agentic work where token cost dominates
- Fast prototype builds you iterate on rather than one-shot masterpieces
- Routing the everyday 90% while a flagship handles the hard 10%
Every benchmark — Gemini 3.6 Flash's full scorecard
All 50 scored tasks, best first — the judge's 0–10 on the same rubric as the whole field. Click any bar for that task's cross-model page, or open this scorecard in the interactive graphs. Full editorial breakdown with judge quotes and sourced outside research: the Gemini 3.6 Flash deep dive →.
Every demo by Gemini 3.6 Flash
50 live demos, sorted by category. Click any tile to play the actual one-shot result. Verdicts and 0–10 scores are pulled from the source guides where I posted them publicly.
▶ LIVECrypt
Game
Polished HUD with vitality/stamina/torch bars, viewmodel sword and torch, and clean brick dungeon rendering, but the screenshot shows no visible enemies or combat and the lighting reads flat/brown rather than moody torch-lit — a competent but empty walking sim so far.
▶ LIVEDragonrealm
Game
Strong atmospheric frozen world with snowy terrain, pine forest, night sky, a viewable held sword, a shrine/altar with particle effects, and a visible humanoid enemy plus full HUD (vitality/stamina/compass/kills). Polished and clearly shippable, but the sword FP model looks a bit awkwardly placed and combat isn't confirmed on-screen, keeping it just under the top tier.
▶ LIVEDoom
Game
Strong atmospheric raycaster-style scene with polished textured walls, weapon model, and a full functional HUD (health/stamina/ammo/kills), but the only visible 'enemy' is a plain cyan cube with no demon presence or visible combat/chase happening in the frame, undercutting the core Doom brief.
▶ LIVERacing
Game
Polished neon HUD with speed, laps, minimap, health/nitro and combat labels, but the rendered scene shows only floating dark slabs with no visible track, car, or enemies — the core third-person racer and combat aren't apparent on screen. Strong UI framing wasted on an incoherent, near-broken 3D view.
▶ LIVESkyrim
Game
Strong Skyrim HUD (compass, HP/Magicka/Stamina bars, kill counter, first-person sword viewmodel) and a visible enemy with 'HOSTILES ENGAGED' combat state; weakened by sparse terrain, a floating white slab artifact and only one distant humanoid rather than an active combat encounter.
▶ LIVETwilightvale
Game
Strong atmospheric twilight scene with cohesive village, terrain, fog and a well-armed character plus polished HUD, minimap and quest tracker; however no enemies are visible in the shot (minimap shows red dots but combat isn't demonstrated), keeping it just short of the top tier.
▶ LIVEVoxelcraft
Game
Strong voxel world with terrain, a tree, HP/time/kills HUD, an 8-block hotbar and — crucially — a visible zombie-style enemy (plus a red one at right) delivering the combat the brief rewards; place/break plus day/night cycle all present, edging past typical walking-sim entries.
▶ LIVEGtafoot
Game
Strong atmospheric dusk city with polished HUD (health/stamina/ammo/kills, wanted stars, minimap), visible pedestrians, working cover system, and crosshair — but the screenshot shows no active combat or enemies engaging, kills at 0, and it reads more as a walking sim with cover than a lively shooting sandbox.
▶ LIVEGtadrive
Game
Gorgeous night-city aesthetic with a detailed player character, stealable car, working minimap with colored blips, HUD (health/nitro/wanted stars/cash), and traffic visible in the distance — clearly a polished, shippable open-city sandbox. Slightly short of the top since the screenshot shows no active cop chase or combat in-frame, but the on-foot/vehicle systems and steal mechanics are all present and cohesive.
▶ LIVEAipbpromo
Page
Clean cinematic hero scene with polished gradient typography, working timeline/scene HUD, and playback controls at 00:04/00:22 confirming auto-play motion. The dead-black background lacks the promised Three.js visual richness in this frame and reads slightly generic versus the field's best.
▶ LIVEParachute 🥈
Game
Strong 3D scene with a well-rendered deployed canopy, articulated diver with suspension lines, layered clouds, jungle terrain and a slick functional HUD (altitude/descent/compass/distance). Slightly held back by the drone-combat framing feeling tacked-on and no enemies visible in this shot, but visually it competes near the top of the field.
▶ LIVEFlightsim
Game
Strong, cohesive flightsim: clean low-poly terrain with mountains/trees, full HUD (airspeed, altitude, VS, heading tape, artificial horizon, throttle), a visible aircraft on the runway, plus a combat/landing loop. No enemies visible in this frame and it's a mid-runway static shot, so it lands just short of the best but is clearly shippable.
▶ LIVEArcade
Game
Strong polished HUD, clean 3D player craft with visible enemy and combat systems (projectiles, HP damage taken at 88), but it ignored the brief entirely — this is a twin-stick shooter, not a classic arcade pick (tetris/breakout/snake), and the scene reads sparse with only one enemy visible.
▶ LIVEDogfight
Game
Gorgeous low-poly 3D scene with a detailed player jet, glowing engines, volumetric clouds, terrain, and a full sci-fi HUD (hull, boost, radar with hostile blips, target-lock reticle). Enemies are present on radar and in-world but combat isn't clearly shown mid-fight in the shot, keeping it just shy of the very top.
▶ LIVEDragonflight
Game
Polished HUD with vitals, fury, score/rings/wyverns and clean neon aesthetic, plus a decent 3D dragon and visible enemy/rings in-scene; however the world reads dim and empty with barely-visible rings and no combat action shown, keeping it below the strong bar.
▶ LIVEGame
Game
Strong cyberpunk 3D combat game with polished HUD, working score/kill tracking (250 pts, 1 kill), reduced HP showing active combat, and a well-modeled 3D robot enemy with atmospheric neon lighting; loses points because only one enemy is visible and the scene reads slightly static/sparse compared to the field's best swarm-combat entries.
▶ LIVENeonblaster
Game
Polished HUD, 3D player ship, synth audio and juicy neon aesthetic look good, but the screenshot shows no visible enemies or combat—only ambient asteroids/rings and score/kills at 0, reading closer to a walking sim than a juicy shooter. Strong presentation is undercut by the lack of demonstrable enemy waves/bosses on screen.
▶ LIVENeoncity
Game
Polished cyberpunk HUD (hull, nitro, kill counter, crosshair) and clean neon vignette look strong, but the rendered scene is mostly a dark flat plane with faint magenta glows and sparse enemy hovers — it reads more as an empty arena than a vibrant neon city you drive through, and the visible environment is thin compared to the field's best.
▶ LIVENeonracer
Game
Strong synthwave aesthetic with glowing neon grid, retro sun/skyline, polished HUD, and a detailed ship with vapor-trail particles; enemies (8 hostiles) are present with combat wired in but appear small/distant, keeping it just shy of the field's best.
▶ LIVENordiccrypt
Game
Strong atmospheric first-person crypt with polished HUD, textured brick walls, torch lighting, and a nicely modeled viewmodel axe; but the screenshot shows no visible enemies/combat and the framing is dominated by a flat wall, so it reads as a walking sim rather than proving the Draugr/rune loop advertised in the counters.
▶ LIVEOutrun
Game
Gorgeous synthwave scene with pseudo-3D grid road, glowing sun, neon palms, polished HUD and an on-road enemy plus reticle showing real combat mechanics; loses a touch because the road perspective looks partly flat/wide rather than a tight curving pseudo-3D outrun feel.
▶ LIVEPool
Game
Visually polished 3D scene with working combat/enemies and particle FX, but it fundamentally misses the brief — this is a 'Rogue Pool Arena' shooter with phantoms and HP bars, not a physically simulated billiards game with proper cue mechanics and pocketed balls.
▶ LIVERaycaster
Game
Strong polished 3D maze with a detailed plasma weapon model, clean sci-fi HUD, functional circular minimap, and HP/kill tracking; but the screenshot shows plain untextured walls (no Wolfenstein-style texturing) and no enemies visible in view despite the '0/8 hostiles' combat framing, leaving it strong-but-not-top.
▶ LIVERpg
Game
Strong 3D atmospheric arena with visible enemies (glowing-eyed shadow creatures), working combat/kill tracking, minimap, inventory slots and polished HUD — but the task asked for a top-down RPG with sprites, and this delivers a first-person 3D combat scene, so it drifts from the brief and the death overlay dominates the shot.
▶ LIVEMatrixrain
Other
Strong 3D instanced matrix rain with convincing depth, glowing heads, katakana glyphs, CRT scanlines/vignette, theme switcher and view modes — visually the best-tier entry; only concern is the FPS counter reading 1, hinting at performance issues, which just keeps it under the 8.5 winner bar.
▶ LIVEMlx Speedtest 🥉
Other
Strong, polished MLX benchmark dashboard with a 3D Three.js tensor core, orbital rings, glassmorphic HUD, chip presets and clean metric cards — clearly shippable. Falls just short of the field's best since the screenshot shows an idle state (0 GB/s, 0.0 TFLOPS, 1.0 tok/s) without visible running/animated benchmark data to prove the speedtest actually sweeps.
▶ LIVENeonsnake 🥉
Other
Polished neon start menu with a visible 3D grid boundary and clean cyberpunk styling behind the blur, but the screenshot shows only the pre-game overlay — no actual snake, gameplay, or scoring visible, so it reads as a strong shell rather than a proven playable build.
▶ LIVELanding
Page
Stunning interactive Three.js WebGL background with glowing neural sphere, crisp gradient headline, polished glass CTAs, and thoughtful interactive controls (drag/scroll, spectrum shift) — visually elevated above a generic marketing page. Minor weak point is the somewhat filler AI-jargon copy, but the execution and depth clearly top-tier.
▶ LIVEWebos
Page
Strong, polished glassmorphic desktop with a 3D WebGL wireframe background, working top bar, dock (Terminal/Paint/Notes/Settings), and a functional-looking terminal with prompt; the visible Paint window appears empty (only toolbar/slider showing, no canvas content) which slightly undercuts the multi-app showcase. Clean and shippable but not quite topping the best.
▶ LIVEBlackhole
Sim
Polished glassmorphism UI and an ambitious raymarching lensing shader, but the render is badly broken — a white/blown-out background with noisy artifacts and a black dome instead of a proper event horizon with a lensed accretion disk, plus a 2 FPS counter indicating serious performance failure.
▶ LIVEBoids
Sim
Strong polished UI with full flocking controls (separation/alignment/cohesion sliders, modes, themes) and a visible multi-colored 3D boid swarm, but the flock reads as a tiny clustered blob rather than expansive emergent flocking, and FPS:6 indicates serious performance issues undermining the sim.
▶ LIVECloth
Sim
Polished UI and solid Verlet physics code, but the screenshot shows only a dark sphere with a shadow and NO visible cloth draping — the core deliverable appears missing/off-screen, making it a broken render despite the good scaffolding.
▶ LIVEFluid
Sim
Strong particle density (75k) with glowing additive blending, polished glassmorphism UI, presets and shockwave controls all render cleanly; but the center is blown out to solid white and it reads more as a bright particle cloud than an elegant swirling fluid, keeping it just short of the field's best.
▶ LIVEFractal
Sim
Gorgeous WebGL-shader Mandelbrot with striking neon glow rays, orbit-trap detail and a full control suite (type toggle, palettes, iteration/depth sliders, auto-morph, HUD) that reads as premium and interactive. Only minor concern is the 9 FPS reading suggesting heavy load, but the visual polish and completeness rival the field's best.
▶ LIVE
Galaxy 🥈
Sim
Strong spiral structure with pink/teal core glow, background stars, and a clean polished UI with palette presets and clear swirl/orbit/zoom controls; the custom shader with mouse interaction and multiple palettes pushes it to the top of the field.
▶ LIVEOrbit
Sim
Strong 3D presentation with glowing sun, orbiting planets, gravity-well grid, and a full control suite (presets, G/time/trail sliders, launch mode); however FPS reads only 9 which signals a performance issue that dampens the sim's smoothness.
▶ LIVEParticleforge
Sim
Polished glassmorphism UI with presets and sliders, but the core requirement—visible swirling particles—is completely absent in the screenshot, showing only an empty gradient background. The WebGL particle system failed to render, gutting the entire brief.
▶ LIVEPathtracer
Sim
Polished UI with full controls (bounces, roughness, DOF, focal, presets) and a plausible path-tracing shader in source, but the render is essentially broken — a flat blue-gray plane with a triangular noise wedge and no visible Cornell box, spheres, or lighting, indicating a camera/geometry or accumulation failure.
▶ LIVEReactiondiff
Sim
Ambitious GPU Gray-Scott on a 3D sphere with a polished UI and rich presets, but the screenshot shows only faint blobs rather than crisp Turing patterns — the reaction-diffusion isn't clearly resolving into the characteristic spots/stripes that define this task.
▶ LIVESolar
Sim
Strong 3D Three.js render with a beautifully textured sun, visible orbital rings, detailed planets, and a clean glassmorphism UI with accurate per-planet data cards, speed controls, and a full nav bar. Slightly held back by the sun looking overly mottled/scaled and no visible orbital labels, but overall shippable and near the top of the field.
▶ LIVEWormhole
Sim
Polished HUD and palette/warp controls, but the actual tunnel reads as a mostly-empty black void with a single magenta ring outline and scattered particles rather than a convincing textured wormhole flythrough — the tube geometry/texture isn't visibly wrapping the view. Strong UI, weak core visual.
▶ LIVEAurora
Visual
Strong WebGL aurora with convincing vertical curtain striations, glowing lower edge, and a reflective terrain foreground; polished glass UI with palette/speed/intensity controls. Slightly loses the top of the field because the color gradient bands could read more organically and the terrain grid looks a touch artificial, but overall shippable and near the best.
▶ LIVEFireworks
Visual
Strong ambitious 3D Three.js setup with city silhouette, star field, polished UI, shell-style selector, and synthesized audio — but the screenshot only captures faint rising rocket trails with no actual bursting fireworks visible, so the core payoff isn't demonstrated on screen. Good polish and interactivity, but the empty-looking sky keeps it from the top tier.
▶ LIVELavalamp
Visual
Strong ambition with 3D lathe lamp geometry, raymarched blobs, glass material and theme switcher, but the render is largely dark/opaque — only two flat orange/red reservoir caps show with no visible mid-lamp blobs or morphing fluid, making it read as broken rather than a lively lava lamp.
▶ LIVEMatrix 🥇
Visual
Stunning volumetric 3D depth with proper katakana glyphs, glowing head chars and light-streak trails in perspective — well beyond a flat 2D canvas rain. Rich UI with palette themes, orbit/zoom controls and EMP pulse pushes it above the field's best.
▶ LIVEPlasma 🥇
Visual
Gorgeous full-screen GLSL plasma with smooth vibrant flowing color bands, polished glassmorphic header and clean palette switcher with 5 presets, plus ripple/drag distortion logic in the shader. Screenshot is genuinely hypnotic and premium; only nit is ripples/distortion can't be verified statically, but the visual quality tops the field.
▶ LIVESynthwave
Visual
Strong synthwave build with glowing neon grid road, wireframe mountains, retro arch/sun, chip-tune audio synthesis, and polished CRT-scanline HUD; the pink/cyan palette and vaporwave title nail the brief, though the tunnel arch reads slightly muddy and the road wireframe geometry near the camera looks a touch busy versus a cleaner classic sunset-sun composition.
▶ LIVETerrain 🥈
Visual
Strong low-poly terrain with convincing biome coloring (green slopes, sandy shores, snow peaks, blue water), tree instances, stars and polished glassmorphism UI with 5 biome presets plus auto-roam/regenerate; falls just short of the top only for a somewhat flat lighting and generic navigation feel.
▶ LIVEVoxel
Visual
Strong polished UI and clean voxel intent, but the render is broken: the landscape is a flat cyan-water slab with no visible terrain, grass, or trees — only floating white cloud/snow blocks, so it reads as a washed-out empty plane rather than a Minecraft-style landscape.
▶ LIVEWaves
Visual
The UI (title card, preset buttons) renders cleanly and the shader source is ambitious with Gerstner waves and Fresnel, but the actual ocean mesh is completely absent from the screenshot — only scattered particle dots appear, meaning the core wave simulation failed to render (likely a shader/uniform error like normalMat).
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Compare Gemini 3.6 Flash against every other model
Every head-to-head featuring Gemini 3.6 Flash. Verdicts shown for scored pairs.
Gemini 3.6 Flash
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Fusion
Fusion leads 37–10
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Hermes MoA
Hermes MoA leads 32–11
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GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads 40–6
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Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 leads 29–16
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Qwen 3.8
Qwen 3.8 leads 35–9
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Grok
Grok leads 27–16
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MiniMax M3
MiniMax M3 leads 29–18
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Fugu Ultra
Fugu Ultra leads 28–14
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Kimi K3
Kimi K3 leads 37–11
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GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2 leads 27–20
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Fugu Mini
Fugu Mini leads 20–16
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Opus 4.8
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 24–23
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Kimi K2.7
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 14–10
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Qwable 5 27B Coder
Qwable 5 27B Coder leads 21–17
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Claude Sonnet 5
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 22–20
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Qwen 3.7
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 30–17
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Inkling
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 37–7
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Agents-A1
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 38–6
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Gemma 4 12B · MLX
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 39–3
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Laguna XS 2.1
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 36–4
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Qwythos 9B
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 40–2
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LongCat-2.0
LongCat-2.0 leads 3–1
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Hy3
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 7–0
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Gemma-4 12B Coder
Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 6–0
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Kimi K2.7 · Fast
47 shared tasks · unscored
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Kimi K2.7 · No-Think
47 shared tasks · unscored
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Kimi K2.7 · Quality
47 shared tasks · unscored
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Ornith 1.0
42 shared tasks · unscored
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Claude Mythos 5
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Kilo Code
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Direct comparisons against every other scored model on the bench:
Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Fusion Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Hermes MoA Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Fable 5 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen 3.8 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Grok Gemini 3.6 Flash vs MiniMax M3 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Fugu Ultra Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Kimi K3 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GLM-5.2 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Fugu Mini Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Opus 4.8 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Kimi K2.7 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwable 5 27B Coder Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Sonnet 5 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen 3.7 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Inkling Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Agents-A1 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemma 4 12B · MLX Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Laguna XS 2.1 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwythos 9B Gemini 3.6 Flash vs LongCat-2.0 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Hy3 Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemma-4 12B CoderRead more on agentos.guide:
Gemini 3.6 Flash — frequently asked
What is Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's AI model — Google's launch-day Flash — faster, cheaper, fewer tokens. It has a 1M tokens context window and was released 2026-07.
How good is Gemini 3.6 Flash at coding and one-shot builds?
On the GoldieBench one-shot build benchmark it averages 7.08/10 across 50 scored tasks, with 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost?
$1.50 / M input. Launched 2026-07-21 alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Google's pitch: higher intelligence than its predecessors on coding/ML/knowledge tasks while using 17% fewer output tokens, at a new lower price ($
Where can I see Gemini 3.6 Flash demos?
Every one-shot build is live and playable on this page and on the GoldieBench compare matrix — same prompt as every other model, no retries.
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