Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

google · Released May 19, 2026
Intelligence #42 / 756
72.7 our score
Speed #35 / 333
201.1 tok/s
Input Price #623 / 779
$1.50 per 1M tokens
Output Price #655 / 779
$9.00 per 1M tokens
Context #50 / 779
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Gemini 3.5 Flash is a broad multimodal model with strong coding evidence, a one-million-token context window, and support for image, file, audio, and video inputs. Tool use and function calling extend it beyond content generation into operational workflows, while the available capability profile indicates strong performance for both technical and general tasks.

It is well suited to code assistance, large-document analysis, visual content audits, media extraction, SEO operations, and customer-facing assistants that need more than text. The agentic results are useful but not at the level of the strongest specialist agent models, so high-impact workflows should retain execution checks and fallback handling.

The pricing is competitive for this breadth of capability. Put it on client workflows where multimodality, context capacity, and throughput matter, and route simple bulk copy to a cheaper tier.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

Gemini 3.5 Flash combines strong reasoning and coding with a 1M token context, vision, audio, video, and function calling, making it a versatile production model for multimodal and agentic workflows.

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DFO Verdict

Gemini 3.5 Flash combines strong reasoning and coding with a 1M token context, vision, audio, video, and function calling, making it a versatile production model for multimodal and agentic workflows.

#42 of 756 overall

How Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash compares

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #55 of 438 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #34 of 210 for coding, #65 of 192 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 94% of the models we list. At $1.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 20% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 94% of models #42
Speed: faster than 89% of models #35
Price: cheaper than 20% of models #623
Context: larger than 94% of models #50
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50 in $9.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence6Technical6.5Value6.8Content8.5
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.50 $0.001500
Output $9.00 $0.009000

What would Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

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We route routine calls to cheap models and save Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution..

Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

How much does Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash cost?

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $9.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

Is Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash ranks #34 of 210 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash do?

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash is developed by Google and was released on May 19, 2026.

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