Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

google · Released Nov 18, 2025
Intelligence #96 / 699
54.3 our score
Speed #100 / 320
128.4 tok/s
Input Price #586 / 714
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #628 / 714
$12.00 per 1M tokens
Context #38 / 714
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview is a broad multimodal model supporting text, image, file, audio, and video inputs. Its million-token context window combines with strong supplied reasoning, coding, instruction-following, and tool-oriented results, giving teams a capable foundation for long documents, media analysis, software tasks, and structured automation.

It suits complex research, content production from mixed media, codebase analysis, and client workflows that need one model to handle several input types. The preview designation is the main operational consideration, so teams should validate response stability, API behaviour, and output controls before making it central to a production stack. Its instruction-following result is less dominant than its technical performance.

Pricing is reasonable for a high-capability multimodal model. Adopt it for demanding mixed-media workflows where context capacity and breadth outweigh the need for a fully established variant.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Gemini 3 Pro Preview offers a million-token context, multimodal text, image, file, audio, and video input, plus strong reasoning, coding, and tool-use results. It is versatile for complex client workflows, with preview status requiring production validation.

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DFO Verdict

Gemini 3 Pro Preview offers a million-token context, multimodal text, image, file, audio, and video input, plus strong reasoning, coding, and tool-use results. It is versatile for complex client workflows, with preview status requiring production validation.

#96 of 699 overall

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 88.7%
HLE 27.6%
MMLU Pro 89.5%
AIME 2025 86.7%
SciCode 49.9%
LiveCodeBench 85.7%
TerminalBench Hard 34.1%
τ²-Bench 68.1%
IFBench 49.7%
LCR 67.3%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

40.6 Intelligence Index·86.7 Math Index

How Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview compares

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview ranks #64 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 18% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 86% of models #96
Speed: faster than 69% of models #100
Price: cheaper than 18% of models #586
Context: larger than 95% of models #38
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview $2.00 in $12.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence6.4Technical0Value6.8Content8.5
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $2.00 $0.002000
Output $12.00 $0.012000

What would Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

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About Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Gemini 3 Pro is Google’s flagship frontier model for high-precision multimodal reasoning, combining strong performance across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using multi-turn tool calling It delivers state-of-the-art benchmark results in general reasoning, STEM problem solving, factual QA, and multimodal understanding, including leading scores on LMArena, GPQA Diamond, MathArena Apex, MMMU-Pro, and Video-MMMU. Interactions emphasize depth and interpretability: the model is designed to infer intent with minimal prompting and produce direct, insight-focused responses. Built for advanced development and agentic workflows, Gemini 3 Pro provides robust tool-calling, long-horizon planning stability, and strong zero-shot generation for complex UI, visualization, and coding tasks. It excels at agentic coding (SWE-Bench Verified, Terminal-Bench 2.0), multimodal analysis, and structured long-form tasks such as research synthesis, planning, and interactive learning experiences. Suitable applications include autonomous agents, coding assistants, multimodal analytics, scientific reasoning, and high-context information processing.

Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

How much does Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview cost?

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $12.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview?

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

What can Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview do?

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview?

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview is developed by Google and was released on November 18, 2025.

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