# Gemini 3 Flash

> Fast, cheap Gemini 3 tier with ~1M context, thinking, tool calling and structured output: built for high-throughput multimodal agents.

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- **name:** Gemini 3 Flash
- **vendor:** Google
- **model_id:** gemini-3-flash-preview
- **context_window:** 1M
- **max_output:** 64K
- **input_per_mtok:** $0.50
- **output_per_mtok:** $3.00
- **strengths:** Fast, cheap Gemini 3 tier with ~1M context, thinking, tool calling and structured output: built for high-throughput multimodal agents.
- **provider:** Google
- **family:** Gemini 3
- **release_date:** 2025-12-17 (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **last_updated:** 2026-06-15
- **open_weights:** false (source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms)
- **license:** proprietary (source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms)
- **params_total:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **params_active:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **tool_call:** true (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **reasoning:** always (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **structured_output:** true (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **attachment:** image,audio,video,pdf (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **temperature:** true (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **knowledge_cutoff:** 2025-01 (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **context_advertised:** 1M (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **context_effective:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **price_input:** $0.50 (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **price_output:** $3.00 (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **price_cache_read:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **price_cache_write:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **cost_per_full_window:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **cost_per_agent_task:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **modalities:** text-in,image-in,audio-in,video-in,pdf-in,text-out (source: https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/)
- **gpqa_diamond:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **swe_bench_verified:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **terminal_bench:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **tau2_bench:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **bfcl_tool_use:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **aa_index:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **lmarena_elo:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **tokens_per_sec:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **ttft:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **hallucination_rate:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **agent_readiness_score:** — (verify-against-primary-at-build)
- **score_confidence:** partial
- **source_url:** https://models.dev/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/
- **source_type:** models.dev
- **last_verified:** 2026-06-15