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Gemini 3 Flash Preview

google·google/gemini-3-flash-preview·GA·Closed·gemini-flash series

New Gemini flash lane bringing frontier-style multimodal reasoning to cheaper runs

At a glance
Official price$0.50 / $3.00 per 1M
Cache read $0.05 · Vertex
Lowest paid$0.07 / $0.43
QiHang Gateway · 10× spread
Context1,048,576
⚠ Providers report 256,000–1,048,756; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
ReasoningTool useStructured outputTemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-01
Released / updated2025-12-17 / 2025-12-17

Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning

Intelligence38.7
Value242
Coding
Agentic
Output speed161 tok/s
TTFT6.22 s
Value formulaIQ 38.7 ÷ min blended $0.160 = 242
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 27.9 · 171 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 38.7 · 161 tok/s

Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.

Available at 25 providers24 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
QiHangGateway$0.07
tiered >200K: $0.07
$0.431,048,57665,536
OrcaRouterGateway$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,57665,536
NanoGPTGateway$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,75665,536
VertexOfficialFirst-party$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,57665,536
GoogleOfficialFirst-party$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,57665,536
Jiekou.AIGateway$0.50$3.001,048,57665,536
OpenRouterGateway$0.50$3.00$0.05$0.0831,048,57665,536
CrossModelGateway$0.50$3.00$0.05$0.501,048,57665,536
Databricks
databricks-gemini-3-flash
Cloud$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,57665,536
Merge GatewayGateway$0.50$3.00$0.051,048,57665,536

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

1QiHang$35.50
2OrcaRouter$196.00
3NanoGPT$196.00
4Vertex · Official$196.00
5Google · Official$196.00
6OpenRouter$196.00
Switch to QiHang to save $160.50/mo (82%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Benchmark4 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
SWE-Bench Prodataset: public34.63resolve rateSource ↗
SWE-Atlas Codebase QnAharness: Mini-SWE-Agent8.2scoreSource ↗
SWE-Atlas Refactoringharness: Mini-SWE-Agent10scoreSource ↗
SWE-Atlas Test Writingharness: Mini-SWE-Agent30.3scoreSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Reasoning control

effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = minimalToggle (on / off)effort = xhigheffort = maxeffort = none

3 / 25 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Related models

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
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