Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber, positioning the family around efficient production agent workloads.
What changed
Gemini 3.6 Flash is designed for coding, knowledge work, multimodal analysis, and computer-use workflows. Google reports fewer output tokens and fewer reasoning steps or tool calls than 3.5 Flash in selected evaluations.
Pricing to verify
At announcement, Google listed 3.6 Flash at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Prices and availability can differ by product and region, so production teams should confirm the current API page.
Our take
Agent economics depend on successful task completion, retries, tool calls, and review effort. Teams should rerun their own representative workloads before switching a production model.
Continue your evaluation
Review our Gemini assessment and AI coding tools before selecting a model for production agents.