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Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (Google AI Studio)
google·google/gemini-3-flash-preview-3·GA·Closed·gemini-flash series
New Gemini flash lane bringing frontier-style multimodal reasoning to cheaper runs
At a glance
Reference price$0.50 / $3.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.05 · LLM Gateway
Lowest paid$0.50 / $3.00
LLM Gateway Gateway
Context1,048,576
Output limit65,535
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2025-12-17 / 2025-12-17
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 1 providers1 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway google-ai-studio/gemini-3-flash-preview | Gateway | $0.50 | $3.00 | $0.05 | — | 1,048,576 | 65,535 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1LLM Gateway$196.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = high
Related models
Gemini 3.7 Flashsame series$0.75 / $3.75Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google Vertex AI)same series$0.75 / $3.75Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google AI Studio)same series$0.75 / $3.75DeepSeek V4 Procheaper alternative$0.435 / $0.87DeepSeek V4 Flashcheaper alternative$0.14 / $0.28MiniMax-M3cheaper alternative$0.30 / $1.20GPT-5.6 Lunacheaper alternative$0.20 / $1.20
Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input list $0.50Output list $3.00Min blended $1.13
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-21). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.