Gemini 3.6 Flash · orcarouter

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's latest fast, cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 family — a natively multimodal model that reads text, images, video, audio, and files and responds in text, with a 1M-token context window and up to 64K output tokens. It is built for teams that need frontier-adjacent quality at Flash-tier speed and price, and is a strong default across coding agents, document and media understanding, retrieval-augmented generation, and high-throughput automation. Against the previous 3.5 Flash it is markedly more token-efficient and less verbose — reaching the same or better quality while emitting fewer output tokens, which directly lowers cost and latency on long agentic runs. It supports configurable reasoning effort (so callers can dial depth against speed per request), native tool calling, and structured outputs, and it holds up strongly on long-context and agentic-coding evaluations for its tier, including 91.8% on 128k-average multi-needle retrieval and competitive scores on SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and OSWorld. Gemini 3.6 Flash speaks both the OpenAI chat-completions format and Gemini's native generateContent API, making it a drop-in upgrade for existing Gemini and OpenAI-compatible integrations. Use it as the everyday workhorse when you want most of the intelligence of a frontier model without paying frontier prices.

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Input, $/1M $0.75

Output, $/1M $3.75

Cache read $0.075

Cache write —

Context 1 048 576

Max output 65 536

Accepts application/pdf, audio/aac, audio/aiff, audio/alaw, audio/flac, audio/l16, audio/m4a, audio/mp3, audio/mpeg, audio/mulaw, audio/ogg, audio/opus, audio/wav, audio/webm, image/heic, image/heif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, text, video/3gpp, video/avi, video/mov, video/mp4, video/mpeg, video/mpg, video/webm, video/wmv, video/x-flv

Last checked 04.11.2026 12:26:37 UTC

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API

OpenAI-compatible API: the official OpenAI SDKs work with this base URL. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your key from the provider.

API base URL	`https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1`
Endpoint	`https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/chat/completions`
Model id	`google/gemini-3.6-flash`

curl

curl https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}], "max_tokens": 256}'

Python

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={
      "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Hello!"
        }
      ],
      "max_tokens": 256
    },
)
print(r.json())

JavaScript

const r = await fetch("https://api.orcarouter.ai/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ],
    "max_tokens": 256
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());

Request (JSON)

{
  "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Hello!"
    }
  ],
  "max_tokens": 256
}

Response (JSON)

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-...",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "model": "google/gemini-3.6-flash",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "Hi! How can I help?"
      },
      "finish_reason": "stop"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 9,
    "completion_tokens": 12,
    "total_tokens": 21
  }
}

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Source: AI Rate Card, https://airatecard.com/en/c/offer%3Aorcarouter%7Cgoogle/gemini-3.6-flash, prices checked 2026-11-04; seller's page: https://orcarouter.ai/models/google/gemini-3.6-flash

Technical details

ID: offer:orcarouter|google/gemini-3.6-flash