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Migrating from gemini-3-flash-preview to gemini-3.6-flash

What changes when you move from gemini-3-flash-preview to gemini-3.6-flash: input price +50%, output price +25%.

Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Status
Active
Shutdown
none announced
Time left
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Prices

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier
Typegemini-3-flash-previewgemini-3.6-flashChange
Input$0.50first seen October 1, 2026 · source$0.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source+50%
Cached input$0.05first seen October 1, 2026 · source$0.075first seen October 1, 2026 · source+50%
Output$3.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source$3.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source+25%

At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $1.25 on gemini-3-flash-preview, $1.6875 on gemini-3.6-flash (+35%).

Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.

Limits

Tokens
Limitgemini-3-flash-previewgemini-3.6-flashChange
Context window1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source1,048,576 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%
Max output tokens65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source0%

Benchmarks

Same benchmark and source on both sides; settings named where they differ
Benchmarkgemini-3-flash-previewgemini-3.6-flashChange
Arena TextArena, high effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap.1473 ±41483 ±4+10
Arena Text: CodingArena, high effort (vs no setting).1506 ±81518 ±7+12
within range
Arena WebDevArena, high effort (vs no setting). Ranges don't overlap.1440 ±91538 ±7+98
Arena VisionArena, high effort (vs no setting).1273 ±51281 ±8+8
within range
Arena DocumentArena, high effort (vs no setting).1439 ±91453 ±11+14
within range
FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI, high effort (vs no setting).17.1%22.0%+4.9 pts
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Epoch AI, high effort (vs no setting).51.2%58.9%+7.7 pts
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI, high effort.
Other settings
  • not run → 86.4% low effort
  • not run → 85.9% minimal effort
89.4%94.1%+4.7 pts
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI, high effort.
Other settings
  • not run → 82.2% low effort
  • not run → 80.0% minimal effort
95.6%94.2%−1.4 pts
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI, high effort.66.8%66.2%−0.6 pts

A score from one source is never compared with another source's, and company-reported scores are compared only within the same company; settings named where they differ. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

Features and parameters

Compare models

Same on both

  • Structured outputs: supported on both.gemini-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • PDF input: supported on both.gemini-3-flash-preview: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · gemini-3.6-flash: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
  • Reasoning / thinking: supported on both.gemini-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: 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-3-flash-preview: Free tier, in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) (source)

gemini-3.6-flash: Free tier, in place when tracking began (October 7, 2026) (source) · All free models

Aliases

All aliases

No aliases point at either model.

On cloud platforms

All platform dates
ModelPlatformPlatform IDShutdownTime left
gemini-3.6-flashGoogle Cloud Vertex AIgemini-3.6-flashNov 19, 2026Active35 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

  1. Change the model string from gemini-3-flash-preview to gemini-3.6-flash.
  2. Re-check costs: gemini-3.6-flash costs more than gemini-3-flash-preview (input +50%, output +25%).

Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: gemini-3-flash-preview, gemini-3.6-flash.