MODEL PROFILE / EDITION 2026.09
Gemini 3.6 Flash
High-volume page generation where per-token cost and predictable speed beat frontier reasoning
Balanced model evidence score; rank 24. No rank delta is shown because there is no prior numeric snapshot.
Best for
High-volume page generation where per-token cost and predictable speed beat frontier reasoning
Price & access
Standard $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M through Dec 31, 2026, then $1.50/$7.50; Batch and Flex $0.375/$1.875; Priority $1.35/$6.75
Evidence summary
First-party GA date and pricing, AA speed/context/intelligence, and two independent preference boards. No software-engineering benchmark row exists for it.
Edition status
No prior snapshot. Tracked in the September 2026 baseline.
Strengths
- Design Arena Website 1317 (rank 7) - visual quality far above its Arena rank
- 208.8 tok/s measured output speed
- $0.75/$3.75 with a free tier
- Largest Gemini Flash vote count in this set (5,932), so its Arena Elo is tightly bounded
Tradeoffs
- AA Intelligence 40 is the lowest of the three Gemini Flash entries
- No repo-scale coding benchmark evidence
- Two newer siblings are the same price
- Modalities and max output unstated by Google
Score profile
visual 70 · code 66 · agentic 66 · debug 65 · context 86 · speed 88 · value 92
Linked evidence
Evidence source 1 ↗Evidence source 2 ↗Evidence source 3 ↗Evidence source 4 ↗Evidence source 5 ↗Evidence source 6 ↗Use the same published data, filters, and side-by-side metrics.