Migrating from gemini-2.0-flash to gemini-3.6-flash
What changes when you move from gemini-2.0-flash to gemini-3.6-flash: prices, limits, features and parameters, read from each company's own pages.
- From
- gemini-2.0-flash
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Jun 1, 2026 at the earliest
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | gemini-2.0-flash | gemini-3.6-flash | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Not published | $0.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
| Cached input | Not published | $0.075first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
| Output | Not published | $3.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source | — |
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | gemini-2.0-flash | gemini-3.6-flash | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | 8,192 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | +700% |
Features and parameters
Compare models- Reasoning / thinking: partial (experimental) on gemini-2.0-flash, supported on gemini-3.6-flash.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Same on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Prompt caching: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Image input: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Built-in web search: supported on both.gemini-2.0-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for gemini-2.0-flash: PDF input, Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Not published for gemini-3.6-flash: Fine-tuning, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs.
Free tier
gemini-2.0-flash: no free tier listed
gemini-3.6-flash: Free tier, in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) (source) · All free models
gemini-3.6-flash adds a free tier.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at either model.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-2.0-flash | Google Cloud Vertex AI | gemini-2.0-flash | Jun 1, 2026Retired on June 1, 2026 | |
| gemini-3.6-flash | Google Cloud Vertex AI | gemini-3.6-flash | Nov 19, 2026Active | 35 days |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
gemini-2.0-flashtogemini-3.6-flash.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-3.6-flash.