Gemini 3.6 Flash pricing
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1.05M context
· 50th cheapest of 89 current models
These are promotional rates, in force until 2026-12-31. The standard rates are $1.5 in / $7.5 out per 1M tokens.
Estimate Gemini 3.6 Flash for your workload Source and check date
Rates last checked against the vendor’s own published pricing on 2026-11-10.
What Gemini 3.6 Flash costs
| Rate | Per 1M tokens | Per 1K tokens | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.75 (Promotional rate until 2026-12-31 — standard rate $1.5/M) | $0.00075 | Every token you send: prompt, history, documents. |
| Output | $3.75 (Promotional rate until 2026-12-31 — standard rate $7.5/M) | $0.00375 | Every token the model generates, including hidden reasoning tokens. |
| Cached input | $0.075 (Promotional rate until 2026-12-31 — standard rate $0.15/M) | $0.000075 | Input served from the provider’s prompt cache. |
| Cache storage / hour | $1 | $0.001 | Separate residency charge per 1M cached tokens; not included without a retention duration. |
What that means in practice
The same three workloads are costed on every model page, so these numbers are directly comparable across the catalog. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed — the figures are what you pay before you optimize anything.
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$3,021 / month
$0.040 per conversation · $36,248 a year
An 800-token system prompt, 400-token questions and 900-token answers, over six turns — each turn re-sending everything before it.
Document summarizer
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$364 / month
$0.012 per conversation · $4,374 a year
One 12,000-token document in, an 800-token summary out, no conversation history. The case where input dominates the bill.
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$2,106 / month
$0.351 per conversation · $25,272 a year
A 3,000-token system prompt, 1,500-token instructions and 2,500-token responses over twelve turns. Long sessions are where the quadratic cost of re-sent history stops being theoretical.
Change the assumptions in the calculator
Cheaper, and scored at least as capable
Every model below costs less on a blended rate and carries a capability score at least as high as Gemini 3.6 Flash’s. The score is a rough estimate, not a benchmark — treat it as a shortlist, not a verdict.
| Model | Input | Output | Blended saving | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Terra | $1 | $5 | 33% | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.3 | $1.2 | 83% | |
| MiMo V2.6 Pro | $0.435 | $0.87 | 82% | |
| GLM-5.3 | $1.4 | $4.4 | 28% | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.1 | $0.5 | 93% |
Head to head
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Qwen 3.7 Max
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GPT-5.2
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Mistral Large 4
- Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Kimi K2.6
Specification
| Context window | 1.05M tokens |
|---|---|
| Maximum output | 66K tokens |
| Provider | |
| Status | Current |
| Reasoning model | Yes |
| Vision | Yes |
| Token counting | Estimated at ~4 characters per token (Estimate — Gemini's tokenizer is server-side) |
Price history
PromptSpend has recorded Gemini 3.6 Flash since 2026-08-02, and none of its rates has changed in that time. Tracking began on 2026-08-02, so anything the vendor did before then is not on record here.
Every row, with the commit that published it, is in the price-history dataset; price news is also available as an Atom feed.
Where these numbers come from
Last checked against its source on 2026-11-10. Source of record: the vendor’s own published pricing.
The vendor page a human checked
Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included. Prices change without notice; this page is rebuilt every time the catalog does.
Common questions
How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost?
Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $0.75 per 1M input tokens and $3.75 per 1M output tokens at the standard tier, as last checked against the vendor’s own published pricing on 2026-11-10. These are promotional rates, in force until 2026-12-31; the standard rates are $1.5 in and $7.5 out.
How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost to run for a month?
On PromptSpend's three standard workloads, Gemini 3.6 Flash costs about $3,021 for a support chatbot, $364 for a document summarizer and $2,106 for a coding agent each month. No prompt caching and no batch discount is assumed, and the same workloads are costed on every model page, so the figures compare directly.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Yes. GPT-6.1 Terra ($1 in, $5 out), DeepSeek V4 Flash ($0.3 in, $1.2 out) and MiMo V2.6 Pro ($0.435 in, $0.87 out) cost less on a blended rate and carry a capability score at least as high. The score is a rough estimate, not a benchmark, so treat the list as a shortlist.
How large is the context window of Gemini 3.6 Flash?
Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts up to 1.05M tokens of context and can produce up to 66K tokens of output.
Has the price of Gemini 3.6 Flash changed?
No vendor change is on record. PromptSpend has recorded Gemini 3.6 Flash since 2026-08-02 and none of its rates has moved. PromptSpend began tracking prices on 2026-08-02, so earlier changes are not on record.
Where do the prices for Gemini 3.6 Flash come from?
They come from the vendor’s own published pricing and were last checked on 2026-11-10. Regional and data-residency premiums, priority tiers, server-side tool fees and negotiated discounts are not included.