Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview

google · Released Nov 18, 2025
Intelligence #9 / 612
82.0 our score
Speed #92 / 287
128.4 tok/s
Input Price #505 / 612
$2.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #541 / 612
$12.00 per 1M tokens
Context #24 / 612
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Gemini 3 Pro Preview is Google's broad-capability frontier model, combining a 1 million token context window with support for text, image, audio, video, and file inputs. Tool use and function calling are included, and coding benchmarks are strong with a livecodebench score of 0.857. The intelligence index of 33.1 sits in the good-to-strong range, and the agentic index of 51.1 supports multi-step workflows.

For businesses, the combination of long context, multimodal input, and agentic capability makes this a strong fit for document analysis, customer-facing automation, and complex content pipelines. Instruction following is moderate rather than leading, and the intelligence index trails the top-tier models by a meaningful margin, so it is better suited to breadth of use than the hardest reasoning tasks.

At $2 input and $12 output per million tokens, pricing is premium. Teams that need a single model to handle diverse input types across large documents will find strong value here, particularly where Google ecosystem integration is already in place.

Assessed July 10, 2026

Editorial notes

Gemini 3 Pro Preview from Google pairs a 1M token context with strong coding, multimodal input across text, image, audio, and video, tool use, and function calling, making it a capable all-round business model despite a mid-tier intelligence index.

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DFO Verdict

Gemini 3 Pro Preview from Google pairs a 1M token context with strong coding, multimodal input across text, image, audio, and video, tool use, and function calling, making it a capable all-round business model despite a mid-tier intelligence index.

#9 of 612 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 Ā· Ink = technical/agentic Ā· Cyan = content & long-context Ā· Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

33.1 Intelligence IndexĀ·51.1 Agentic IndexĀ·86.7 Math Index

How Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview compares

Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview ranks #76 of 393 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #74 of 300 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 96% of the models we list. At $2.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 17% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 99% of models #9
Speed: faster than 68% of models #92
Price: cheaper than 17% of models #505
Context: larger than 96% of models #24
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers Ā· $ per 1M tokens
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview $2.00 in $12.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2.00 in $12.00 out

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

Context window vs peers Ā· tokens

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

Intelligence5.6Technical6.2Value6.8Content6.7
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in intelligence 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.

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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.