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Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Researched 1d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-19. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Gemini 3.5 Flash is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
  • Workloads that can use a 1M context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

$9.00

GCP Vertex AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-19

Researched 1d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MBatch in / outCacheRoute
GCP Vertex AI$1.50$9.00$0.750 / $4.50read $0.150
Serverless
Google AI Studio$1.50$9.00$0.750 / $4.50read $0.150
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google DeepMind's generally available Flash model for sustained frontier-level performance on agentic and coding tasks. It supports multimodal inputs, native thinking, tool and function calling, structured outputs, code execution, search grounding, batch processing, and long contexts up to 1M tokens.

Gemini 3.5 Flash has a 1M-token context window.

Gemini 3.5 Flash input tokens at $1.5/1M, output at $9/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch APIAudio

API Versions

gemini-3.5-flash

Rankings

Specifications

Released2026-05-19
Context1M
Max output65,536
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Specializationgeneral
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

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Founded 2014
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