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- Jul 21, 202695% CONFIDENCEfrom deepmind.google
Gemini 3.6 Flash Released
- Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash on 21 July 2026, the new default workhorse model, about two months after 3.5 Flash and alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and the gated 3.5 Flash Cyber[1][3]
- It is "more token efficient across tasks": 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash by the Artificial Analysis Index, with fewer reasoning steps and tool calls on multi-step workflows[1]
- The knowledge cutoff moves from January 2025 to March 2026, and 9to5Google noted Google also teased Gemini 4 in the same announcement[1]
Notable features
- Priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, down from $9 for output on 3.5 Flash[1][2]
- DeepSWE 49% (3.5 Flash 37%), MLE-Bench 63.9% (49.7%), GDPval-AA 1421 Elo (1349) and OSWorld-Verified 83.0% (78.4%)[1][2]
- 1 million token context window and 64K output tokens, in the Gemini app, Gemini API, AI Studio, Antigravity and Gemini Enterprise[2]
Benchmarks[2]
| Benchmark | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Gemini 3.1 Pro | GPT-5.6 Luna | Grok 4.5 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input price ($/1M tokens, no caching) | $1.50 | $1.50 | $2.00 | $1.00 | $2.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price ($/1M tokens) | $7.50 | $9.00 | $12.00 | $6.00 | $6.00 | $15.00 |
| SWE-Bench Pro (Public) (Diverse agentic coding tasks) | 58.7% | 55.1% | 54.2% | 62.7% | 64.7% | 63.2% |
| DeepSWE v1.1 (Long-horizon software engineering) | 49% | 37% | 12% | 67% | 54% | 54% |
| Terminal-bench 2.1 (Agentic terminal coding, Terminus-2 harness) | 78.0% | 76.2% | 73.8% | 84.7% | 83.3% | 80.4% |
| MLE-Bench (Machine Learning Engineering) | 63.9% | 49.7% | 42.6% | 47.6% | 43.2% | 66.9% |
| GDPVal-AA v2 (Knowledge work, Elo) | 1421 | 1349 | 965 | 1584 | 1535 | 1607 |
| OSWorld-Verified (Agentic computer use) | 83.0% | 78.4% | 76.2% | 72.6% | — | 81.2% |
| CharXiv Reasoning (Information synthesis from complex charts, No tools) | 85.2% | 84.2% | 83.3% | 82.7% | 81.6% | 77.0% |
| CharXiv Reasoning (Information synthesis from complex charts, With tools) | 89.4% | 84.9% | 83.2% | — | — | 88.3% |
| GDM-MRCR v2 (8-needle) (Long context performance, 128k (average)) | 91.8% | 77.3% | 84.9% | 74.8% | 81.4% | 71.6% |
| GDM-MRCR v2 (8-needle) (Long context performance, 1M (pointwise)) | 54.0% | 26.6% | 26.3% | — | — | — |
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- [1]90%9to5google.com/2026/07/21/gemini-3-6-flash-launch9to5google.com· Posted Sep 30, 2026· Starts Jul 21, 2026· 31% of score
9to5Google's launch report is dated 21 July 2026 and says Google "today announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite"; DeepMind's[2] 3.6 Flash model card is published 21 July 2026.
- [2]95%Gemini 3.6 Flash - Model Carddeepmind.google· Published Jul 21, 2026· Starts Jul 21, 2026 ✓· 23% of score
DeepMind's model card, published 21 July 2026, lists the benchmark table and the $1.50 and $7.50 per million token prices.
- [3]80%Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cybermarktechpost.com· Published Jul 21, 2026· 23% of score
MarkTechPost's same-day write-up of the three-model Flash tier release.
- [4]70%Neural Newscast: Google Ships Three New Gemini Flash Models [Model Behavior]podcasts.apple.com· Published Jul 21, 2026· 23% of score
Neural Newscast's episode "Google Ships Three New Gemini Flash Models [Model Behavior]" (2026-07-21) says: "with enterprise software. [00:48] Thatcher Collins: I'm Thatcher Collins. [00:49] Thatcher Collins: Nina, the timing of these releases is certainly noteworthy. [00:53] Thatcher Collins: Today , Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash Lite, and a specialized security-focused version called Flash Cyber. [01:03] Thatcher Collins: This blitz comes immediately after"[1]
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