Gemini 3.6 Flash | Google Efficient LLM API

Name: Gemini 3.6 Flash API
Brand: google
Price: 1.5 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly

google/gemini-3.6-flash

Release date: 2026-07-21

1,048,576 context · $1.50/M input tokens · $7.50/M output tokens

Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google's production-ready multimodal model for agentic workflows, coding, and complex planning, with improved token efficiency and reduced output verbosity. It supports text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs with a 1,048,576-token context window.

Pricing

Pay-per-use

No upfront costs, pay only for what you use

Input$1.50 / M Tokens

Output$7.50 / M Tokens

Cache Read$0.15 / M Tokens

Cache Write$0.08 / M Tokens

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API Usage

Use the following code examples to integrate with our API:

import OpenAI from 'openai';

if (!process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY) throw new Error('Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY');
const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY,
  baseURL: 'https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1',
  timeout: 120_000,
  maxRetries: 2,
});

try {
  const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
    model: 'google/gemini-3.6-flash',
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }],
  });
  console.log(response.choices[0]?.message?.content ?? '');
} catch (error) {
  console.error('LLM request failed:', error);
  process.exitCode = 1;
}

import OpenAI from 'openai';

if (!process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY) throw new Error('Set WAVESPEED_API_KEY');
const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.WAVESPEED_API_KEY,
  baseURL: 'https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1',
  timeout: 120_000,
  maxRetries: 2,
});

try {
  const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
    model: 'google/gemini-3.6-flash',
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }],
  });
  console.log(response.choices[0]?.message?.content ?? '');
} catch (error) {
  console.error('LLM request failed:', error);
  process.exitCode = 1;
}

Model Introduction

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

Specifications

Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max input: 983,040 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Inputs: text, image, video, audio, and PDF
Output: text
Function calling and structured output: supported

API

Base URL: https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1 Endpoint: chat/completions Model ID: google/gemini-3.6-flash

Info

Providergoogle

Typellm

Supported Functionality

Input

TextImageAudio

Output

Text

Context1,048,576

Max Output65,536

Vision✓ Supported

Function Calling✓ Supported

API Access Guide

Base URLhttps://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1

API Endpointchat/completions

Model IDgoogle/gemini-3.6-flash

Frequently Asked Questions about Gemini 3.6 Flash

How much does Gemini 3.6 Flash cost via the API?+

Pricing on WaveSpeedAI: $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens. Prompt caching and batch processing are billed separately and reduce effective cost on long, repetitive workloads.

What is the context window of Gemini 3.6 Flash?+

Gemini 3.6 Flash supports up to 1049K tokens of context with up to 66K tokens of output per request.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash OpenAI-compatible?+

WaveSpeedAI exposes Gemini 3.6 Flash at https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1 through the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions interface. Most OpenAI SDK clients work by changing the base URL and API key; optional fields depend on the selected model.

How do I get started with Gemini 3.6 Flash?+

Sign in to WaveSpeedAI, create an API key in Access Keys, then send a request to https://llm.wavespeed.ai/v1/chat/completions with the model id shown above. Check the current model catalog for availability, capabilities, and pricing.