---
title: "Gemini 3.6 Flash"
description: "Gemini 3.6 Flash by Google: 1.05M context. Compare provider prices and applicable pricing conditions on the model page. Pay as you go."
canonical: https://pirouter.ai/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash
last-updated: 2026-10-15
---

# Gemini 3.6 Flash

> Gemini 3.6 Flash by Google: 1.05M context. Compare provider prices and applicable pricing conditions on the model page. Pay as you go.

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a previous-generation Gemini Flash model that balances speed and multimodal capability for general agentic and everyday tasks. Google highlights code generation, agentic execution and spatial reasoning; it takes text, image, audio, video and PDF input.

## At a glance

- Model ID: `google/gemini-3.6-flash`
- Also accepted as: `gemini-3.6-flash`
- Vendor: Google
- Category: text
- Openness: Proprietary
- Model page: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.6-flash
- Context: 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output: 65,536 tokens
- Added to pirouter: 2026-07-21
- Status: Available

## Pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

|  | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Reasoning | Audio input |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.75 ~~$1.5~~ | $3.75 ~~$7.5~~ | $0.075 ~~$0.15~~ | $0.0833 | $3.75 ~~$7.5~~ | $0.75 ~~$1.5~~ |

50% off for a limited time · Ends 2026-12-31 23:59 HKT · Same price on every provider · this is what you are billed.

## Capabilities

- Function calling
- Tool choice
- Structured outputs
- Response schema
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- System messages
- Streaming
- Vision
- Audio input
- Video input
- PDF input

## Reasoning effort

- high, medium, low, minimal (default: medium)

## How to call it

One pirouter API key works with every API format below; create it in the console. Use one of these formats; formats not listed are not available for this model.

- API key: https://app.pirouter.ai/sign-in

### OpenAI Responses

- Endpoint: `POST /v1/responses` on https://api.pirouter.ai
- Auth: `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
- SDK base URL: https://api.pirouter.ai/v1
- Reference: https://pirouter.ai/docs/api/responses

```bash
curl https://api.pirouter.ai/v1/responses \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
    "input": "Hello!"
  }'
```

### OpenAI Chat

- Endpoint: `POST /v1/chat/completions` on https://api.pirouter.ai
- Auth: `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
- SDK base URL: https://api.pirouter.ai/v1
- Reference: https://pirouter.ai/docs/api/chat-completions

```bash
curl https://api.pirouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }]
  }'
```

### Gemini

- Endpoint: `POST /v1beta/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent` on https://api.pirouter.ai
- Auth: `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
- SDK base URL: https://api.pirouter.ai
- Reference: https://pirouter.ai/docs/api/generate-content

```bash
curl "https://api.pirouter.ai/v1beta/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "contents": [{ "parts": [{ "text": "Hello!" }] }]
  }'
```

## Providers

One row per provider; pirouter sends each request to a healthy one.

| Provider | API format | Context | Max output | Input /M | Output /M | Trains on your data | Data retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gcp | openai, gemini | 1,048,576 | 65,536 | $0.75 ~~$1.5~~ | $3.75 ~~$7.5~~ | No | Limited |

## Rankings

Where this model ranks on each blind-vote leaderboard, listing the boards where it makes the top 100. Open a board for the full ranking.

| Board | Rank | Score |
|---|---|---|
| [Overall](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/overall) | #18 / 385 | 1483 |
| [Coding](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/coding) | #34 / 380 | 1518 |
| [Math](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/math) | #12 / 371 | 1502 |
| [Creative writing](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/creative) | #12 / 383 | 1472 |
| [Instruction following](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/instruct) | #23 / 385 | 1473 |
| [Multi-turn](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/multiturn) | #20 / 383 | 1488 |
| [Long prompts](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/longctx) | #27 / 363 | 1487 |
| [Chinese](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/chinese) | #14 / 362 | 1530 |
| [Web dev](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/webdev) | #37 / 121 | 1536 |
| [Agents](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/agent) | #40 / 44 | -7.7 pp |
| [Vision](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/vision) | #20 / 144 | 1280 |
| [Documents](https://pirouter.ai/rankings/document) | #24 / 38 | 1453 |

Data: [LMArena leaderboard dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Updated 2026-10-01

## Supported parameters

`tools`, `tool_choice`, `response_format`, `structured_outputs`, `max_tokens`, `temperature`, `top_p`, `seed`, `stop`, `reasoning`, `include_reasoning`, `stream`

## Links

- HTML: https://pirouter.ai/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash
- JSON: https://pirouter.ai/api/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash
- Providers JSON: https://api.pirouter.ai/v1/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash/endpoints
- Leaderboard ranks (JSON): https://pirouter.ai/api/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash/rankings
- Catalog: https://pirouter.ai/models
- Quickstart: https://pirouter.ai/docs/quickstart
- How routing works: https://pirouter.ai/docs/routing
- llms.txt: https://pirouter.ai/llms.txt

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HTML version: https://pirouter.ai/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash · Machine-readable index: https://pirouter.ai/llms.txt