Gemini 3.6 Flash
Gemini 3.6 Flash is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Google, released July 21, 2026. The context window is 1M tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 155.2, rank 44 of 256 rated models. API price: $0.75 input / $3.75 output per million tokens.
3.6 Flash: Our workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance. According to the Artificial Analysis Index, it reduces output token usage by 17% compared to 3.5 Flash, and in some benchmarks like DeepSWE by Datacurve, we observe up to 65%, all at a lower cost per output token.
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Strengths by category
ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.
| Category | Score | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 21.0 | Chess Puzzles, Mystery Game Puzzles |
| Math | 46.2 | ProofBench, OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025, FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private, FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private |
| Coding | 46.4 | MirrorCode, DeepSWE |
| Knowledge | 81.8 | GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 96.0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 94.2% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 66.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3) | 62.0% |
| DeepSWE | 46.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | 39.0% |
| ProofBench | 36.0% |
| MirrorCode | 23.3% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 22.9% |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | 22.0% |
| Furniture Assembly | 0.0% |
Links
Announcement · Epoch AI benchmarks
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