Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

google · Released Dec 17, 2025 Professional
Intelligence #15 / 525
84.1 Our Score
Speed #35 / 244
182.2 tokens / sec
Input #346 / 525
$0.500 per 1M tokens
Output #391 / 525
$3.00 per 1M tokens
Context #12 / 525
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #15 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.500 input and $3.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers an exceptionally large context window suited to long-document workflows and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

Gemini 3 Flash Preview from Google delivers near-flagship reasoning, a 1M token context, full multimodal input including audio and video, and strong agentic scores at just $0.50/1M input, making it exceptional value for business use.

Assessed April 26, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence8.4Technical7.9Value7.3Content8
Intelligence 8.4/10
Technical 7.9/10
Content 8/10
Value 7.3/10

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance. It delivers near Pro level reasoning and tool..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

35 Intelligence Index
37.8 Coding Index
37.6 Agentic Index
55.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 81.2% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 14.1% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 88.2% Multi-task language understanding
AIME 2025 55.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 49.9% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 79.7% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 31.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 43.3% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 55.1% Instruction following
LCR 48% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID google/gemini-3-flash-preview
Providergoogle
Model FamilyGemini 3
Release Date December 17, 2025
Context Length1,048,576 tokens
Max Completion65,536 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.50 $0.000500
Output $3.00 $0.003000

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

99.6%
Avg Uptime
994ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
72 tok/s
Best Throughput
2/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: Google AI Studio, Google