{"slug": "gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "Vercel's AI Gateway now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, with Gemini 3.6 Flash improving quality across coding and agentic tasks while consuming fewer tokens, and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite upgrading agentic capabilities for subagents. AI Gateway provides a unified API with no markup on provider pricing and no platform fee on inference.", "body_md": "[Gemini 3.6 Flash](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gemini-3.6-flash) and [Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gemini-3.5-flash-lite) are now available on AI Gateway.\n\nGemini 3.6 Flash improves quality across coding, agentic tasks, and web development while consuming fewer tokens and making fewer model calls. It produces cleaner web and app development output.\n\nGemini 3.5 Flash Lite upgrades the agentic capabilities of the Flash-Lite tier, making it a good fit for subagents that handle scoped parts of a larger task.\n\nTo use them, set `model`\n\nto `google/gemini-3.6-flash`\n\nor `google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite`\n\nin the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/):\n\nAI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in [custom reporting](https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway), [Zero Data Retention support](https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway), [budgets for API keys](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/api-keys), [routing rules](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/routing-rules), and more.\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/byok) (BYOK) requests.\n\nTry Gemini 3.6 Flash in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gemini-3.6-flash).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-07-21 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-21 15:33:30.511990+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Vercel", "AI Gateway", "Gemini 3.6 Flash", "Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite", "AI SDK"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-3-6-flash-and-gemini-3-5-flash-lite-are-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}