Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output tokens 17%: the real agent cost vs GPT-5.6 Luna and Claude Sonnet 5
Google cut the Gemini Flash output rate from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens and made the model emit 17% fewer of them. Stack that against GPT-5.6 Luna at $1/$6 and Claude Sonnet 5's tokenizer change, and