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Using Gemini 3 Flash on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Gemini 3 · Google DeepMind

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Quick Start

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

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
google/gemini-3-flash

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemini-3-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

About Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.50
Output tokens$3.00
Query$14.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseCode ExecutionAudio

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.

Model Specs

Released2025-12-17
Context1M
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2025-01

Provider

Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel