> Gemini 3.6 Flash is a closed AI model from Google, released 21 Jul 2026. Index score 164 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 34 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.75 in / $3.75 out per million tokens, 1.05M context.

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# Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google

Released 21 Jul 2026

Closed

Flagship

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/gemini-3-6-flash-vs-kimi-k3/) [Announcement](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/)

164153–175

Index score

#34 of 229 models

4/ 8

Core tests taken

4 of 6 areas · plus 13 anchor tests

−21

Versus the frontier at release

best then: Claude Fable 5

Replaced by [Gemini 3.7 Flash](https://themodelindex.org/models/gemini-3-7-flash/)

$0.75/ $3.75

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

1.05M

Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Claude Opus 4.6 reached this score 5 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 12 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

94%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

59%

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

APEX-Agents

47%

Novel problems

evidence

ARC-AGI-2

60%

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#34

of 219 · 164

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#13

of 373 · 1502

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#14

of 386 · 1472

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#20

of 388 · 1483

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#37

of 383 · 1518

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#33

of 239 · 154.3

LMArena · Vision

understanding images

#22

of 149 · 1280

LMArena · WebDev

building web apps and front ends

#39

of 123 · 1536

LMArena · Documents

working with long documents

#22

of 41 · 1456

LiveBench · Overall

overall, with fresh questions to limit contamination

#38

of 58 · 73.6

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Gemini 3.7 Flash; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Gemini

app · subscription

↗

Google AI Studio

API

↗

#### API providers · 2 · per million tokens, in / out

G

Google

$1.35 / $6.75

cheapest

G

Google AI Studio

$1.35 / $6.75

↗

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

21 Jul 2026

Announcement

[blog.google ↗](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/)

Release entry

Gemini 3.6 Flash + 3.5 Flash-Lite

Scored as

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

–

Hugging Face

closed weights

## Google releases · around this one

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Closed

19 MAY 2026

index 165

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Closed

21 JUL 2026

index 142

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Closed

21 JUL 2026

index 164

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Closed

13 AUG 2026

index 172

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Closed

2 SEP 2026

index 171

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/gemini-3-6-flash/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01