no end announced
Checked Oct 27 · catalogue
Google
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Image+video input per the OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway catalogues (2026-10-20).
FTI5 sources · between #15 and #23 of the 72 with an FTI score
19–24
5 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 22; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
- Artificial Analysis · third party
- 29.8 Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI): 42 · third party
- 25.2 Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI): 154.69 · third party
- 20 FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 21.95 · third party
- 24.1 FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 58.95 · third party
- 21.3 Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI): 23.33 · third party
- 21.7 GPQA Diamond: 93.43 · third party
- 24.4 Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI): 30 · third party
- 26.8 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI): 94.17 · third party
- 17.6 SWE-bench Verified: 79.6 · third party
- 37.7 SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI): 66.2 · third party
- 27.9 Terminal-Bench 2.1: 73.78 · third party
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Also free through programs whose allowance covers this model · amounts are shared with other models
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listedGemini 3.8 Flash · Google AI Studiolisted Gemini 3.7 Flash · Google AI Studioended Gemini 3.6 Flash · Google AI Studiolisted Gemini 3.5 Flash · Google AI Studioended Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Google AI Studiolisted
Free of charge on Google AI Studio's free tier (standing); not called by us yet
Source: Google AI Studio docs
Channel details
Google AI Studio listed✓ humans✓ agents
- Tested by us
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~20 RPD community readout (Flash series) · checked Oct 6- Model ID
gemini-3.6-flash- To start
- $0 · account Google account, a project with no billing account; limits per project, shown only inside AI Studio; not available in China, Hong Kong or Macau
- Use it
- API · 2 formats
- Free condition
- Gemini API key from a project without billing; free-tier limits per project, reset at midnight Pacific; UK / EEA / Swiss users get the paid-tier data terms; Free while the key's Google Cloud project has no billing account linked; linking billing moves it to a paid usage tier. Limits are per project, not per key.
- Limit (stated)
- not published
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none published, view in AI Studio; RPD resets midnight PT - Started
- not recorded; first seen 2026-10-06
- End
- no end announced
- Data policy
- may train
- Channel type
- first-party
- Checked
- Oct 27 · catalogue