Using Gemini 3 Flash on Google AI Studio

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at Google AI Studio and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the Google AI Studio SDK or REST API to call gemini-3-flash — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.50/1M input, $3.00/1M output tokens.

Code Examples

import os
from google import genai

client = genai.Client(api_key=os.environ["GOOGLE_API_KEY"])
response = client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-3-flash",
    contents="Hello"
)
print(response.text)

About Google AI Studio

Google AI Studio is a model prototyping environment and API access point for Gemini models, offering an inference playground for developers to test and build AI applications.

Pricing on Google AI Studio

Capabilities

About Gemini 3 Flash

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.