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  "schema_version": 1,
  "public_model_id": "google/gemini-3.5-flash",
  "canonical_page": "https://www.maxapi.dev/models/google/gemini-3.5-flash",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-09-10",
  "generated_at": "2026-09-11T02:12:59.280Z",
  "scope": "Checked against MaxAPI's public catalogue, gateway implementation and local regression cases. Shared gateway checks are not separate end-to-end tests of every listed model. This is an integration reference, not a live upstream availability or performance report.",
  "summary": "Gemini 3.5 Flash is listed as google/gemini-3.5-flash. Use the Gemini-native request format in the example below, then read candidates and usageMetadata from the response. Model access, routing and account limits are separate from the task instructions you put in contents.",
  "model_profile": {
    "family_id": "google/gemini-3.5-flash",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-09-10",
    "title": "Stable-entry iterative engineering workflows",
    "provider_positioning": "Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model page emphasizes multi-step work, longer-running tasks and iterative coding. It is listed as a stable text-output model. This describes its intended use, not an automatic agent runtime supplied by MaxAPI.",
    "selection_advice": "Compare it with 3 Flash Preview when maintaining a stable public model selection for repeated plan-test-revise loops. Evaluate the whole workflow, including correction rounds, rather than only the first answer.",
    "limitations": "Stable is a provider release label, not a MaxAPI availability SLA or a claim that this is Google's latest model. Your application owns tool execution, memory, budgets and stopping rules.",
    "suggested_use_cases": [
      {
        "title": "Test-result driven revisions",
        "body": "Feed back real failing tests and ask for a bounded next change. Reject claims about tests the model did not run."
      },
      {
        "title": "Multi-step work tracking",
        "body": "Preserve completed steps, observed results and the remaining task list explicitly between calls."
      },
      {
        "title": "Workflow-level model comparison",
        "body": "Compare total calls, accepted outcomes and recovery effort under the same stopping rules."
      }
    ],
    "example_prompt": {
      "title": "Revise from observed test failures",
      "text": "Review the supplied task state and actual test failures. Return completed_items, remaining_items, one_next_change and verification_plan. Preserve work already verified as correct. Propose only the smallest change that addresses a demonstrated failure; do not claim new tests passed or start unrelated refactoring. Task state and logs: [insert].",
      "review": "Check that prior state is preserved and proposed work remains within the observed failure."
    },
    "scope": "Provider capabilities describe the model, not the complete MaxAPI feature set. Use the parameters, input types and routes documented for this MaxAPI entry. Vendor speed or quality descriptions are not service-level guarantees.",
    "variant_note": null,
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "Google · gemini-3.5-flash",
        "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flash"
      }
    ]
  },
  "illustration": {
    "url": "https://www.maxapi.dev/model-guides/individual-20260910/gemini-3-5-flash.webp",
    "alt": "Mechanical clock assembly with organized gears and tools on a maker's workbench",
    "caption": "Iterative engineering concept: inspect feedback, make one bounded change and check the result again.",
    "provenance": "ai_generated_editorial_concept",
    "is_output_from_named_model": false,
    "is_benchmark": false
  },
  "illustrations": [
    {
      "section": "usecases",
      "url": "https://www.maxapi.dev/model-guides/individual-20260910/gemini-3-5-flash.webp",
      "alt": "Mechanical clock assembly with organized gears and tools on a maker's workbench",
      "caption": "Iterative engineering concept: inspect feedback, make one bounded change and check the result again.",
      "width": 1536,
      "height": 1024,
      "provenance": "ai_generated_editorial_concept",
      "is_output_from_named_model": false,
      "is_benchmark": false
    },
    {
      "section": "features",
      "url": "https://www.maxapi.dev/model-guides/expanded-20260911/gemini-3-5-flash-practice.webp",
      "alt": "Tiny replacement gear beside an intact clock mechanism",
      "caption": "State the smallest required edit and the surrounding parts that must remain intact.",
      "width": 1536,
      "height": 1024,
      "provenance": "ai_generated_editorial_concept",
      "is_output_from_named_model": false,
      "is_benchmark": false
    },
    {
      "section": "prompts",
      "url": "https://www.maxapi.dev/model-guides/expanded-20260911/gemini-3-5-flash-prompt.webp",
      "alt": "Artisan checks a blue mechanical assembly with a green tool beside an inspection sheet.",
      "caption": "Concept for one focused adjustment after inspection feedback.",
      "width": 1536,
      "height": 1024,
      "provenance": "ai_generated_editorial_concept",
      "is_output_from_named_model": false,
      "is_benchmark": false
    },
    {
      "section": "workflow",
      "url": "https://www.maxapi.dev/model-guides/expanded-20260911/gemini-3-5-flash-workflow.webp",
      "alt": "Clock mechanism rechecked beside original spare gears and a checklist.",
      "caption": "Recheck the targeted fix and nearby behavior.",
      "width": 1536,
      "height": 1024,
      "provenance": "ai_generated_editorial_concept",
      "is_output_from_named_model": false,
      "is_benchmark": false
    }
  ],
  "configured_facts": [
    {
      "label": "Request model ID",
      "value": "google/gemini-3.5-flash",
      "code": true
    },
    {
      "label": "Output type",
      "value": "Language"
    },
    {
      "label": "Base URL",
      "value": "https://api.maxapi.dev",
      "code": true
    },
    {
      "label": "Generation workflow",
      "value": "Gemini-compatible generateContent"
    }
  ],
  "pricing_scope": "1 credit = US$1. These are catalogue base rates, not a live account quote. Account multipliers and the active billing configuration determine the final charge. Token rates are not a fixed price per image.",
  "pricing_index": "https://www.maxapi.dev/pricing.json",
  "routing_rules": [
    {
      "title": "Which route wins?",
      "body": "Routing priority is: the API key's configured route_modes list → an explicitly requested route → the model's default route. A non-empty key list takes precedence over route_mode in the request. To test a specific route, check the key configuration first; changing the request alone may not change the route used."
    },
    {
      "title": "A key cannot grant account permissions",
      "body": "The a, x and pro routes require the corresponding account permission. Listing one on an API key does not grant that permission. An unauthorized gated-route selection returns 403 rather than silently switching to a different pricing tier."
    },
    {
      "title": "RPM is shared at account level",
      "body": "An account's positive RPM limit covers its API keys together. A key can impose a stricter limit, but a higher key limit does not override the user limit. For example, a user limit of 200 RPM is not 200 RPM for each key. Service-level RPM and concurrency controls also apply; adding keys is not a way to bypass them."
    }
  ],
  "troubleshooting": [
    {
      "code": "403",
      "title": "a_route_not_enabled / x_route_not_enabled / pro_route_not_enabled",
      "meaning": "The selected restricted route is not enabled for the account. It is an access issue, not evidence that the model is offline.",
      "action": "Check both the account permission and the API key's route list. Select a route you are entitled to use or request access; do not solve a 403 by increasing retries."
    },
    {
      "code": "429",
      "title": "rate_limit_exceeded / capacity_exhausted",
      "meaning": "429 can represent account/key RPM, service-wide capacity or generation capacity. Use Retry-After and available X-RateLimit-* / X-Global-* headers to distinguish them; one status code does not identify one unique cause.",
      "action": "Respect Retry-After when present, reduce request rate or active concurrency as appropriate, and use bounded backoff. Do not treat the site's total capacity as your account's personal quota."
    }
  ],
  "verification": {
    "environment": "local_mock_requests_and_test_storage",
    "coverage": "shared_gateway_components_not_each_model_end_to_end",
    "paid_upstream_calls": 0,
    "reviewed_at": "2026-09-10",
    "cases": [
      {
        "key": "shared-user-rpm",
        "title": "Multiple keys share the user limit",
        "input": "Use two keys owned by the same account against an in-memory limiter with a small user quota.",
        "result": "Requests across the keys consume the same user quota; subsequent requests are limited. A larger key quota does not override the user quota, and a smaller key quota remains effective."
      }
    ],
    "limitations": "Local tests use simulated requests, responses and test storage; they do not call paid model channels. They verify request handling, not model image quality, live success rates, latency or end-to-end support for the maximum reference count. The concept illustrations elsewhere on this page are not these test outputs."
  },
  "sources": {
    "maxapi_documentation": "https://www.maxapi.dev/docs",
    "catalogue": "https://www.maxapi.dev/models.json",
    "provider_documentation": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flash"
  }
}