Google · Workhorse
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google's fast tier, launched July 2026 and aimed at coding, knowledge work and multimodal tasks at a fraction of Pro pricing.
What that means
A worked example
Per-token pricing is hard to feel. Take a moderately chatty production workload: 100 calls a day, roughly 10,000 tokens in and 2,000 out each time. On Gemini 3.6 Flash that comes to about:
$90 / month
Before caching, batching or volume discounts, all of which move this number a long way. Illustrative only.
Strong at
- -Speed
- -Multimodal
- -Cost
Typical use
- -High-volume multimodal
- -Coding assistants
Same tier
What else to look at
| Model | Developer | Context | In / 1M | Out / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | 1M | $3 | $15 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Anthropic | 1M | $3 | $15 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | 1M | $2 | $12 |
| GPT-5.4 | OpenAI | - | $2.50 | $15 |
| Grok 4.20 | xAI | - | $1.25 | $2.50 |
Verified 2026-08-07.