---
title: "Gemini 3.6 Flash — API access"
description: "Gemini 3.6 Flash API pricing: current promotional official rates of $0.75/$0.075/$3.75 per 1M tokens through 2026-12-31, or $0.375/$0.0375/$1.875 with the flat 50% apiToken.sale discount. Standard rates resume on 2027-01-01."
url: "https://apitoken.sale/models/gemini-3-6-flash"
language: "en"
---
# Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is an earlier Flash generation for workloads that remain pinned to it, with multimodal input and Flash-tier pricing.

- **Model ID:** `gemini-3.6-flash`
- **Tier:** Flash
- **Context window:** 1M tokens
- **Max output:** 64K tokens
- **Official price (per 1M):** $0.75 input / $3.75 output
- **Your price (per 1M):** input $0.375, output $1.875 (flat 50% off)
- **Base URL:** `https://router.apitoken.sale` · **Endpoint:** `POST /v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent` (x-goog-api-key)

## Best for

- Agentic coding and tool use at Flash speed.
- Multimodal workloads across text, image, audio, video and PDF input.
- Long-context analysis in the full 1M-token window.

## Notes

- Current official promotional rates are $0.75 input, $0.075 cached input and $3.75 output per 1M tokens through 2026-12-31; standard rates resume on 2027-01-01.
- Cached input bills at 10% of input — caching is automatic on repeated prefixes.
- 1M-token context window with 64K max output and no long-context premium.

## Call it

```bash
curl https://router.apitoken.sale/v1beta/models/gemini-3.6-flash:generateContent \
  -H "x-goog-api-key: $APITOKEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"contents": [{"parts": [{"text": "Reply with exactly: connected"}]}]}'
```

## FAQ

**How much does the Gemini 3.6 Flash API cost?**

Google's current promotional rate through 2026-12-31 is $0.75 input, $0.075 cached input and $3.75 output per 1M tokens. The flat 50% apiToken.sale discount makes that $0.375/$0.0375/$1.875. Google returns to $1.50/$0.15/$7.50 on 2027-01-01.

**What is the model ID for Gemini 3.6 Flash?**

gemini-3.6-flash. Use it unchanged with the Google GenAI SDK or any Gemini-compatible tool pointed at https://router.apitoken.sale, with the key sent as x-goog-api-key.

**Gemini 3.6 Flash or 3.5 Flash?**

3.6 Flash is newer and, during the current Google promotion, costs $0.75 input and $3.75 output per 1M versus $1.50/$9.00 on 3.5 Flash. New projects should start with Gemini 3.8 Flash; keep 3.6 or 3.5 only where prompts and evals are pinned to them.

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API reference: https://apitoken.sale/md/docs · All models: https://apitoken.sale/md/models