Google appears to have quietly shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, with lower pricing and better agentic scores
xiaohu · x · 2026-07-21
Google’s Gemini 3.6 Flash appears to be live, with a leaked/early official-style benchmark card showing stronger agentic and coding performance than 3.5 Flash, fewer tool calls and output tokens, and lower pricing.
- DeepSWE: 37% → 49%
- OSWorld: 83%
- Output tokens: down 17%
- Price: cheaper than 3.5 Flash on output ($7.50 vs $9.00 per 1M tokens)
The post also notes improved stability on coding tasks, fewer loop/over-edit failures, and a broader push toward agentic + computer-use workloads.
Related event: Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and Cost-Effective Models(59 posts)→
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