Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new AI model now available to billions of users through Google apps and to developers via APIs (application programming interfaces, tools that let software communicate). The model is significantly more expensive than previous Flash versions, costing 3-6 times more, bringing it close in price to Google's more advanced Gemini 3.1 Pro model.