Gemini 3 Flash
- Family
- Gemini 3
- Released
- 2025-12-17
- Context
- 1m
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 4 routes · GCP Vertex AI
About
Gemini 3 Flash is Google's speed-optimized Gemini 3 model, available in public preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI. It supports text, image, audio, and video inputs with a 1M token context window and is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.00 per 1M output tokens.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
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Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.500 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Google AI Studio | $0.500 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.500 | $3.00 | - | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.500 | $3.00 | read $0.050 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
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Benchmark scores(6)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU PRO | 88.6 | —Observed 2026-04-19 | — | Source |
| τ-bench | 71.5 | τ-benchObserved 2026-04-24 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1467.0 | —Observed 2026-04-28 | — | Source |
| MMMU Pro | 87.6 | Vals.ai standardized CoT harness, 4-option, Pass@1, temp=0Observed 2026-06-02 | — | Source |
| Google-Proof Q&A | 90.4 | —Observed 2025-12-17 | — | Source |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.0 | —Observed 2025-12-17 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(6)
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