Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview

google · Released Dec 17, 2025 Professional
Intelligence #10 / 557
84.9 Our Score
Speed #27 / 259
198.5 tokens / sec
Input #368 / 560
$0.500 per 1M tokens
Output #417 / 560
$3.00 per 1M tokens
Context #17 / 560
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #10 of 557 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 pairs near-frontier reasoning with a 1M token context, multimodal inputs across text, image, audio, and video, strong instruction following, and competitive pricing.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence8.4Technical7.9Value7.3Content8.5
Intelligence 8.4/10
Technical 7.9/10
Content 8.5/10
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

46.4 Intelligence Index
42.6 Coding Index
59.5 Agentic Index
97 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 89.8% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 34.7% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 89% Multi-task language understanding
AIME 2025 97% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 50.6% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 90.8% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 38.6% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 80.4% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 78% Instruction following
LCR 66.3% 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.

99.3%
Avg Uptime
954ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
75 tok/s
Best Throughput
2/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: Google AI Studio, Google