benchrInput / 1M$1.50Standard paid tier
Output / 1M$7.50Includes thinking tokens
Cached input / 1M$0.15Cache storage is extra
Context1.05M65,536 max output
Official price table
| Tier | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached input / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $1.50 | $7.50 | $0.15 |
| Batch | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 |
| Flex | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 |
| Priority | $2.70 | $13.50 | $0.27 |
When it is cheaper than 3.5 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper only where output is a meaningful part of the bill. Input stays at $1.50 per million tokens, matching Gemini 3.5 Flash. Output falls from $9.00 to $7.50. On a workload with 10M input tokens and 5M output tokens, the model bill drops from $60 to $52.50 before caching. On input-heavy extraction with short outputs, the reduction is smaller.
Use-case fit
Use it for coding agents, grounded web workflows, document and multimodal input, and older Flash migrations where you want a stable endpoint. Use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite when the task is simple and price matters more than capability. Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview when the task is hard single-shot reasoning and you can tolerate the Pro-tier price.
Sources
- Google Gemini API pricing, verified July 22, 2026.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash model page, verified July 22, 2026.
- Gemini API release notes, verified July 22, 2026.