Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are now GA, cheaper and more efficient

Gemini 3.6 Flash 与 3.5 Flash-Lite 正式版发布

Google moved Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite to GA. 3.6 Flash costs $1.50/$7.50 per 1M input/output tokens — cheaper than 3.5 Flash — and uses fewer tokens and turns on complex agentic and multimodal tasks, with better code generation and instruction following. 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest, cheapest 3.5 model at $0.30/$2.50 per 1M tokens, built for high-throughput work. Both keep the 1M-token context window, 64k max output, and Computer Use support. The post includes migration steps and code samples but no benchmark scores.

Why it matters: Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash GA with lower pricing than 3.5 Flash and a focus on agentic/multimodal tasks. Solid numbers and specs, but no benchmarks or competitive comparisons in the post, so it lands at 78.