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🇺🇸 United States visionReleased July 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Google
EU hosting Card data 80/100 Trust Index 80
Verdict

Strong value for high-volume usage.

Overview

The newest entry in Google's Flash lineup, Gemini 3.6 Flash pairs a one-million-token context window with an aggressive launch price ($0.75/$3.75 per million tokens through 2026, doubling afterward) aimed at heavy multimodal workloads and agentic pipelines. No technical report or benchmark figures have been published yet, so its real-world performance is hard to verify independently. It's a closed, proprietary model hosted by Google with no on-premise option, meaning European teams handling sensitive data will need to check which Google Cloud regions actually apply.

Skill profile

Arena Elo1480

Not disclosed

Strengths

  • World-class on Arena
  • Very long context
  • Competitive input pricing

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
  • your data must stay in the EU
Skip it if…

    Ideal use cases

    • Large-scale document processing
    • Multimodal agent pipelines
    • Combined image and text analysis
    • Cost-controlled high-volume tasks
    • Rapid agent prototyping

    Access & availability

    Paid API per token

    Key specifications

    Context
    1M
    Input price
    $0.75/M
    Output price
    $3.75/M
    Speed
    Price verified Sep 4, 2026·Official sourceBenchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    $30.0 / month
    27.6 € · 20.0 M tokens
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    80/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    20/20 criteria documented · 100 %

    Data90
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty43
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise100
    6/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria
    Data
    EU data residency
    No transfer outside EU50
    No training on your data
    Configurable retention
    Zero Data Retention
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offered
    European vendorcountry: US30
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitments
    Subprocessor list published
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAML
    SCIM provisioning
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Private endpoint / VPC
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
    Full ranking and methodology

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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyYes
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
    Transfer outside the EUDepends on plan
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionYes
    Zero Data RetentionYes
    Self-hostableNo
    Declared hostingUS/EU

    Quality of this card’s data

    80/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    5/6 documented · 4/6 primary sources

    API pricingofficial
    Context windowofficial
    Arena EloLMArena, human preferenceindependent
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
    Architecture
    Size
    Cutoff date
    Inputs
    Outputs
    License
    proprietary
    Hosting
    US/EU
    Hallucination score
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    ≈ $0.0060
    1M in + 1M out
    ≈ $4.50
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo1480
    MMLU
    GPQA
    HumanEval
    SWE-Bench
    MATH