Migrating from gemini-3.5-flash to gemini-3.6-flash
What changes when you move from gemini-3.5-flash to gemini-3.6-flash: input price −50%, output price −58.3%.
- From
- gemini-3.5-flash
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | gemini-3.5-flash | gemini-3.6-flash | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.50first seen October 1, 2026 · source | $0.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source | −50% |
| Cached input | $0.15first seen October 1, 2026 · source | $0.075first seen October 1, 2026 · source | −50% |
| Output | $9.00first seen October 1, 2026 · source | $3.75first seen October 1, 2026 · source | −58.3% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $3.75 on gemini-3.5-flash, $1.6875 on gemini-3.6-flash (−55%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | gemini-3.5-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 | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 65,536 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
Benchmarks
Same benchmark, source and setting on both sides| Benchmark | gemini-3.5-flash | gemini-3.6-flash | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena TextArena, high effort. | 1477 ±4 | 1483 ±4 | +6 within range |
| Arena Text: CodingArena, high effort. | 1508 ±6 | 1518 ±7 | +10 within range |
| Arena WebDevArena, high effort. Ranges don't overlap. | 1499 ±7 | 1538 ±7 | +39 |
| Arena VisionArena, high effort. | 1284 ±7 | 1281 ±8 | −3 within range |
| Arena DocumentArena, high effort. | 1453 ±9 | 1453 ±11 | 0 within range |
| FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI, high effort. | 26.8% | 22.0% | −4.8 pts |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Epoch AI, high effort. | 62.8% | 58.9% | −3.9 pts |
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI, high effort.Other settings
| 92.8% | 94.1% | +1.3 pts |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Epoch AI, high effort.Other settings
| 95.6% | 94.2% | −1.4 pts |
| SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI, high effort. | 66.2% | 66.2% | 0 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 modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.gemini-3.5-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-3.5-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-3.5-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-3.5-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-3.5-flash: 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-3.5-flash: 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-3.5-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-3.5-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-3.5-flash: 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-3.5-flash: 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 aliasesAliases pointing at gemini-3.5-flash: gemini-flash-latest (since May 19, 2026, per Google · source)
No aliases point at gemini-3.6-flash.
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-3.5-flash | Google Cloud Vertex AI | gemini-3.5-flash | not before May 19, 2027Active | |
| 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-3.5-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-3.5-flash, gemini-3.6-flash.