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Google's 21 July release of Gemini 3.6 Flash pairs an output-price cut from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens with a claim of roughly 17% fewer output tokens per task, compounding to about 31% lower output cost for unchanged work. That combination makes per-million-token price sheets unreliable for model comparison, and Azure teams should measure cost per completed task instead.

Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash on day one of I/O 2026, the third frontier agentic coding model in five weeks after Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, alongside a $100/month developer tier and the Antigravity 2.0 agent platform. For Azure-first teams the practical response is a reusable evaluation harness and a documented cost comparison for renewal leverage, not a migration.