Model Release Radar
Price/capability frontier position, benchmark scores, and community signal
Model Release Radar
Gemini 3.6 Flash
google·closed weights·Proprietary·released Tuesday, Jul 21, 2026
Token prices
USD per million tokens via OpenRouter, Google AI Studio (google-ai-studio). Checked 2026-10-17 00:21 UTC.
| Token type | USD /1M |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.75 |
| Output | $3.75 |
| Cache read | $0.075 |
| Cache write (default) | Unverified basis |
| Cache write (1 hour) | Unknown |
Cache-write rates with a verified basis replace the ordinary input charge. Unknown rates are never treated as zero.
Frontier position
- Behind frontier AA coding index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
- Behind frontier AA intelligence index (blended per-1M-token price, 3:1 input/output; not a measured per-task cost) - Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Step 5 Preview, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, GPT-5.6 Luna are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
- Behind frontier DeepSWE pass@1 (agentic coding) (measured USD per task) - Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-5.6 Terra, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Luna are priced the same or lower and at least as capable.
Cost vs. capability
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Benchmark scores
Measured cost per task (DeepSWE)
| Benchmark | Pass@1 | Measured cost / task | Frontier |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE (agentic coding) (high effort, 95% CI 43.0%-50.4%, 4 runs) | 46.7% | $2.21 (median $1.72) | behind |
Artificial Analysis scores
Artificial Analysis scores describe capability. Compare them against estimated token spend with your cache mix; these estimates are not measured task costs.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| AA intelligence index | 34.0 |
| AA coding index | 69.2 |
Community signal
| Variant | Coding Elo | Overall Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 1,491 | 1,479 | 36,122 |