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Gemini 3 Pro Preview

gemini-3-pro-preview

DeprecatedResearched 29d ago

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

ProprietaryMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Gemini 3 Pro Preview is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration
  • Workloads that can use a 1M context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • New production launches

Cheapest output

$12.00

GCP Vertex AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

This API model is marked deprecated. Verify the replacement path before sending new production traffic.

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
GCP Vertex AI$2.00$12.00
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Deprecated/shut down March 9, 2026. Vertex: $0.20/$12.00 (<=200K), $0.40/$18.00 (>200K). Migrate to Gemini 3.1 Pro.

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

Gemini 3 Pro Preview input tokens at $2/1M, output at $12/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGemini 3
Released2025-09-01
Context1M
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

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Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
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