Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, a new model focused on programming, knowledge work, and multimodal agents. The model completes multi-step tasks with fewer reasoning steps and tool calls. According to Artificial Analysis, it uses 17% fewer output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash. API input price stays at $1.5 per million tokens, while output price drops from $9 to $7.5 per million tokens. With lower token usage and reduced cost per token, running long agent tasks becomes cheaper. Performance has also improved. DeepSWE…