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Gemini 3 Pro

gemini-3-pro

Researched 137d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalCodingRAGAgentsLong contextVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

Gemini 3 Pro is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-01-01.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
  • Workloads that can use a 1M context window
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

$5.00

GCP Vertex AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

2

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Grade D

Ranked by benchmark score divided by cheapest output price

Freshness

2026-01-01

Researched 137d ago

stale

Top use-case fit

Coding

Q/$ D

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
GCP Vertex AI$1.25$5.00
Serverless
Replicate API$2.00$12.00
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Migration checks

About

Google DeepMind's most advanced reasoning Gemini model. Part of the Gemini 3 series with frontier-class intelligence, multimodal understanding, and 1M token context window.

Gemini 3 Pro has a 1M-token context window.

Gemini 3 Pro input tokens at $1.25/1M, output at $5/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseCode Execution

Benchmark Scores(5)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
SWE-bench Pro42.5DAT-1778
Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding81.0https://mmmu-benchmark.github.io/
BFCL72.5v4https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
MMLU PRO90.1https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro
Chatbot Arena1486.0https://arena.ai/leaderboard

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGemini 3
Released2025-12-11
Context1M
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Specializationgeneral
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

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