OpenRouter model

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is a high-efficiency model from Google for coding, agentic workflows, and web and app development. It is designed to produce polished outputs with fewer unnecessary edits and...

Provider
OpenRouter
Availability
Available
Model ID
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Snapshot
2026-10-07
Evaluation Verdict

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the verified benchmark driver of Swarms Century Run (100 sequential autonomous tasks without failure), combining rapid execution with robust tool-calling stability.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Benchmarks & Agentic Accuracy

Verified primary research & developer preference metrics

Primary Sources Verified
SWE-bench Verified
65.2%
Thinking (Low)Google DeepMind / Swarm Century Run ↗
LiveCodeBench
49.5%
Thinking (Low)LiveCodeBench Leaderboard ↗
LMSYS Coding Elo
1355Elo
Coding ArenaLMSYS Arena ↗
AIME 2024 / 2025
78%
ThinkingGoogle DeepMind ↗
Pricing ($ / 1M tokens)
$0.15/ $0.6
$0.025 cached readStandard API Pricing

What This Means in Real Software Development

  • Proven in the live Century Run benchmark: sustained 100 autonomous Git commits, build validations, and refactors with 0 context collapses.
  • Scores 65.2% on SWE-bench Verified at $0.15/M tokens, offering exceptional cost-to-performance efficiency.
  • Low thinking mode delivers instant tool-calling response times (<400ms TTFT) for interactive CLI and TUI sessions.
  • Massive 1M context handles entire repository codebases with zero middle-truncation.

Swarm Multi-Agent Topology

Tier 3: High-Throughput Subagent EngineRole: Finder Subagent

Best Paired With: Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro

Default model for fast discovery, multi-file symbol indexing, and rapid linting. Excellent stability across hundreds of continuous agent steps.

Git Worktree Isolation Advantage:

Operates with minimal memory overhead in Swarms Pebble KV daemon (~25MB RSS), enabling low-spec hosts ($0.15/Mo VPS) to run multi-agent routines.

What Developers & Practitioners Are Saying

Real-world field observations, production strengths, and developer consensus

Field Consensus

"Default workhorse for fast reconnaissance and agentic search across massive repositories."

Verified Real-World Strengths

  • Instant response
  • Cost-effective context loading for 500k+ token dumps
  • Stable structured output formatting

Production Caveats & Gaps

  • Trails frontier models on complex architectural decisions
Benchmark Reality Check

What the benchmark tests: Evaluates fast retrieval and schema-compliant tool dispatching.

Production caveat: Delegate final code integration and test fixes to a Tier 1 model.

Primary Sources & Methodology Citations

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash model overview

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenRouter. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.

Provider
OpenRouter
Family
OpenRouter
Context window
1.05M tokens
Thinking support
low · medium · high
Availability status
Available
Catalog ID
openrouter/google/gemini-3.6-flash
  • Audio input
  • File input
  • Image input
  • Text input
  • Video input
  • Text output
  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • JSON

Run Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash in Swarm

Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture

Quickstart Guide →
bash — swarm run
$swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/google/gemini-3.6-flash

# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:

>/models

Subagent Role Matrix

Assign Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash to specialized system roles in ~/.swarm/config.json:

  • Primary / Planner: Orchestrates full task DAGs and multi-stage pipelines.
  • Coder Subagent: Generates code and unit tests inside private Git worktrees.
  • Finder Subagent: Performs read-only code search, symbol discovery, and mapping.
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