Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Speech and audio
gemini-3.8-flash-tts
$0.50 in, $9 out per 1M tokens
Gemini 3.6 Flash
July 2026 Flash release, launched together with 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Use gemini-3.8-flash for new projects.
Model idgemini-3.6-flash
Price$0.75 in, $3.75 out per 1M tokens
Checked12 October 2026
Knows up to March 2026
1,889events after its cutoff
85 historic, 433 major. 227 days of news.
It launched on 21 July 2026, already missing 135 of them.
How to call it
3 ways to use Gemini 3.6 Flash, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API | gemini-3.6-flash |
https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent |
ai.google.dev |
| Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Vertex AI) | docs.cloud.google.com | ||
| OpenRouter | google/gemini-3.6-flash |
Pricing
| Input | $0.75 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $3.75 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (Standard tier, current introductory price through 2026-12-31; $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01, which was its launch price)”.
Source: ai.google.dev, checked 12 October 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text, images, audio, video and PDF
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- Not published
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- March 2026
- Released
- 21 July 2026
- Status
- Legacy
- Type
- Reasoning model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Token-efficient agentic coding
Uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash with better coding/multimodal results and fewer unwanted edits.
Computer-use agents
83.0% on OSWorld-Verified (vs 78.4% for 3.5 Flash).
Four assistants, one scale
Gemini 3.6 Flash is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).
- GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
- Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
- Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
- Gemini 3.6 Flash 135 at launch, 1,889 today
Show as a table
| Model | Cutoff | Released | Missing at launch | Missing today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | April 2026 | 3 September 2026 | 271 | 1,863 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | June 2026 | 22 September 2026 | 372 | 1,795 |
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | March 2026 | 12 November 2026 | 1,863 | 1,889 |
| Grok 4.7 | May 2026 | 21 September 2026 | 387 | 1,829 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | March 2026 | 21 July 2026 | 135 | 1,889 |
Notes
Knowledge cutoff March 2026 per Google’s model card (storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-6-Flash-Model-Card.pdf). Stable, no shutdown date; superseded by 3.7 and 3.8 Flash. Recommended replacement for gemini-3-flash-preview per deprecations page. Output limit not re-checked (assumed 65,536 like siblings, omitted).
curl "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent" \
-H "x-goog-api-key: $GEMINI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"contents":[{"parts":[{"text":"Hello"}]}]}'
Sources: models, pricing, deprecations, launch blog.