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Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Gemini 3.6 Flash
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash
google/gemini-2.5-flash
ProviderGoogleGoogle
FamilyGemini 3
Modalitytexttext
Context window1,048,576 tok1,000,000 tok
Max output65,536 tok8,192 tok
Released2026-07-212026-05-22
Input price$1.50 /1M$0.300 /1M
Output price$7.50 /1M$2.50 /1M
Cache read
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Gemini 3.6 Flash
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Full spec →

Gemini 3.6 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost, excelling at code generation, agentic execution, and spatial reasoning.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Gemini 2.5 Flash
google/gemini-2.5-flash
Full spec →

Google's fast multimodal Gemini 2.5 model with strong reasoning and a 1M token context window.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Gemini 3.6 Flash
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-3.6-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Gemini 2.5 Flash — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-2.5-flash",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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