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Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the Flash-tier workhorse of the Gemini 3.x line, improving coding, agentic execution, and web development output while consuming fewer output tokens and making fewer model calls than Gemini 3.5 Flash, with built-in computer use and a context window of 1M tokens. Your use is subject to Google's Terms & Privacy Policies.

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import { streamText } from 'ai'


const result = streamText({
  model: 'google/gemini-3.6-flash',
  prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})
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About Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's Flash-tier workhorse, released on July 21, 2026, and it builds directly on Gemini 3.5 Flash. Quality rises across coding, knowledge work, and multimodal tasks while token consumption falls. On the Artificial Analysis Index, Gemini 3.6 Flash consumes fewer output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash, and it completes multi-step workflows with fewer reasoning steps and fewer tool calls. For agent workloads, that compounds: the saving lands on every step of a run, not on a single call.

Coding is where the gains are easiest to measure. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 49% on DeepSWE against 37% for Gemini 3.5 Flash, and 63.9% on MLE Bench against 49.7%. Generated code arrives with fewer unwanted edits and less execution looping, and web and app development output comes back cleaner, which matters when an agent writes a multi-element layout you intend to ship rather than rewrite.

Computer use ships as a built-in client-side tool. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 83.0% on OSWorld-Verified against 78.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash, so agents that drive a browser or a desktop application close the gap between a plan and a completed action more often. Multimodal and spatial reasoning improved alongside it, covering chart interpretation, visual blueprint conversion, and multi-element web layout generation. Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts text, images, audio, video, and PDF documents within a context window of 1M tokens and returns text, up to 64K tokens.

Knowledge work moved with the rest: Gemini 3.6 Flash scores 1421 on GDPval-AA v2 against 1349 for Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Google points to document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting as the tasks customers exercise most. Function calling, structured outputs, code execution, search grounding, URL context, and context caching are all supported. Calling Gemini 3.6 Flash through AI Gateway adds usage and cost tracking, automatic retries, and provider failover on one API surface, with no Google Cloud account required.