Gemini 3.6 Flash

Name: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Author: Google

Multimodal

Google

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's fast reasoning model released in July 2026, ranking first on MLE-Bench and delivering strong agentic coding and terminal task performance. It pairs a 1M token input context with up to 65.5K output tokens at $1.50 per million input tokens.

Key Specifications

Parameters

Context

1.0M

Release Date

July 21, 2026

Average Score

78.5%

API Documentation Results Blog

Timeline

Key dates in the model's history

Announcement

July 21, 2026

Last Update

August 27, 2026

Technical Specifications

Parameters

Training Tokens

Knowledge Cutoff

March 31, 2026

Family

Capabilities

MultimodalZeroEval

Pricing & Availability

Input (per 1M tokens)

$1.50

Output (per 1M tokens)

$7.50

Max Input Tokens

1.0M

Max Output Tokens

65.5K

Supported Features

Function CallingStructured OutputCode ExecutionWeb SearchBatch InferenceFine-tuning

Benchmark Results

Model performance metrics across various tests and benchmarks

Other Tests

Specialized benchmarks

CharXiv-R

Search and code execution • Self-reported

89.0%

OSWorld-Verified

Five-run average, single attempt • Self-reported

83.0%

Terminal-Bench 2.1

Terminus-2 harness • Self-reported

78.0%

MLE-Bench

Partial 30, average position score • Self-reported

64.0%

License & Metadata

License

proprietary

Announcement Date

July 21, 2026

Last Updated

August 27, 2026

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