Google AI Studio surfaces Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash Lite with pricing
Acceptable-Debt-294 · reddit · 2026-07-21
Google AI Studio now lists two new Gemini models:
- Gemini 3.6 Flash — described as Google’s most intelligent model yet for sustained frontier performance in agentic and coding tasks.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite — positioned as a high-throughput, low-latency model for scaling high-volume agentic workloads and subagent workflows.
The screenshot also shows pricing in AI Studio, with Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50 input / $7.50 output and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite at $0.30 input / $2.50 output. Both are marked as new and show a knowledge cutoff of Mar 2026 with a release date of Jul 21, 2026.
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