Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash with premium pricing above prior Flash models, affecting agentic and coding workload costs.
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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/gemini-35-flash/">Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite</a></b></span> — Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability … </p>
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