Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash targets high-throughput teams that need multimodal reasoning without the latency or cost of frontier models. With a 1M token context window and $1.50/$7.50 per Mtok pricing, it handles long documents, video analysis, and audio transcription at roughly one-third the cost of GPT-4o. The trade-off: no public benchmarks yet means you're flying blind on reasoning quality relative to Claude or GPT-4 class models. Reach for this when speed and multimodal breadth matter more than proven performance on complex logic tasks.