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Gemini 3 Flash Preview

CTX1.05M

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82Quality

Reasoning · Vision · Tools

Input$0.50/M

Output$3/M

New Gemini flash lane bringing frontier-style multimodal reasoning to cheaper runs

PaidProprietary729/1044

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview

New Gemini flash lane bringing frontier-style multimodal reasoning to cheaper runs

gemini-3-flash-preview

Type: Text
Quality: 82 · Top 18% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price: $3.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: $0.05 / 1M tokens
Cache write: —
Released: Dec 17, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Jan 2025
Takes in: Text, Image, Audio, Video, PDF
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
File attachments: Yes
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 729/1044

Open Google docs Quality 82 Where to run it 28 Evolution 2/6 Meet its creature Battle Qwen3.6 Plus

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Google’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: ai.google.dev.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Gemini 3 Flash Preview, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 18% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #51.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#51 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.151.8 index
Listed as Gemini 3 Flash
LMArena Text#36 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,466 rating
Listed as gemini-3-flash
LMArena Text · Coding#84 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,460 rating
Listed as gemini-3-flash
LMArena Text · Math#42 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,473 rating
Listed as gemini-3-flash
LMArena Text · Creative writing#26 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,457 rating
Listed as gemini-3-flash
LMArena WebDev#77 of 145
Each model builds a web app from the same prompt; people pick the better one.1,440 rating
Listed as Gemini 3 Flash
LMArena Vision#32 of 165
Questions about images, voted by people.1,285 rating
Listed as gemini-3-flash

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

28 providers sell Gemini 3 Flash Preview through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestQiHang$0.07 in · $0.43 out
From the labGoogle$0.50 in · $3.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
QiHangCheapest paid`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.07	$0.43	1.05M
Kilo Gateway`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.25	$1.50	1.05M
302.AI`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1M
Abacus`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
AIHubMix`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
CrossModel`gemini/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Databricks`databricks-gemini-3-flash`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Eden AI`vertex/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
FrogBot`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M

Show 18 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
GoogleOfficial`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Jiekou.AI`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
LLM Gateway`google-vertex/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Merge Gateway`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
NanoGPT`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Neon`gemini-3-flash`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Ofox`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
OpenRouter`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Opper`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
OrcaRouter`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Perplexity Agent`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Pioneer`gemini-3-flash`	$0.50	$3.00	1M
Prime Inference`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Tempr Gateway`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Vertex`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
ZenMux`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.50	$3.00	1.05M
Venice AI`gemini-3-flash-preview`	$0.70	$3.75	256K
AnyAPI`google/gemini-3-flash-preview`	—	—	1.05M

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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