Overview
- On Tuesday, July 21, 2026, Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash‑Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber with immediate availability for most developer and consumer channels.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash is billed as the new workhorse and uses about 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash while lowering API output pricing to $7.50 per million tokens and showing improved coding and knowledge‑work scores on Google‑reported benchmarks.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash‑Lite targets high‑throughput, low‑latency tasks by delivering roughly 350 output tokens per second and a lower price point of $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens for large‑volume workloads.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a cybersecurity‑tuned model designed to find and fix code vulnerabilities inside Google’s CodeMender agent and will be offered only to governments and vetted partners in a limited pilot to reduce dual‑use risk.
- Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing with no broad release date and Google has begun pretraining runs for Gemini 4, a sequence that keeps pressure on enterprise customers weighing cost, coding performance, and choices between Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.