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 use performance with substantially lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well suited for interactive development, long running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks. Compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash, it provides broad quality improvements across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability.
The model supports a 1M token context window and multimodal inputs including text, images, audio, video, and PDFs, with text output. It includes configurable reasoning via thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high), structured output, tool use, and automatic context caching. Gemini 3 Flash Preview is optimized for users who want strong reasoning and agentic behavior without the cost or latency of full scale frontier models.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $0.25 | $1.50 | -- | -- |
- Input $0.25 / Output $1.50-- tok/s-- uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) — Price history
| $0.00 | $0.00 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
- Effective in $0.00 / Effective out $0.00Token share100.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Not enough uptime data to display yet.
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 81.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) HLE | 15.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) IFBench | 55.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom | 43.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 55.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 1.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench | 79.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard | 31.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro | 88.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning) AIME 2025 | 55.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond | 89.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) HLE | 36.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) IFBench | 78.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom | 80.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) AA-LCR | 78.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) τ-Bench Banking | 20.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) CritPt | 8.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) LiveCodeBench | 90.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard | 38.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) MMLU-Pro | 89.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning) AIME 2025 | 97.0% |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Agenticslides Elo | 1073 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Agenticslides(Python-Pptx) Elo | 1075 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Androidnative Elo | 1034 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Full Stack Elo | 1037 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Godotgamedev Elo | 1161 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo | 1082 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo | 1036 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Agents Arena Webapps Elo | 1089 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Models Arena 3D Elo | 1163 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1179 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1155 |
| Design Arena | Gemini 3 Flash Preview Models Arena Website Elo | 1188 |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) AIME | 95.6% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) CaseLaw v2 | 55.8% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Code Migration | 6.4% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) CorpFin v2 | 66.4% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) EMB | 26.0% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Finance Agent (v2) | 42.6% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) GPQA Diamond | 87.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | 0.0% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) IOI v1 | 39.1% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) LiveCodeBench | 85.6% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) LegalBench | 86.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Legal Research Bench | 18.3% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MedCode | 55.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MedQA | 95.8% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MedScribe | 69.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MGSM | 93.3% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MMLU Pro | 88.6% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MMMU Pro | 87.6% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) MortgageTax | 68.7% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) ProgramBench | 0.0% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) ProofBench v1 | 15.0% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) SAGE v1 | 51.8% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) SWE-bench | 75.0% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Tax Agent Bench | 11.8% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) TaxEval v2 | 73.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 53.9% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Vals Index | 29.4% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Vals Multimodal Index | 52.2% |
| Vals AI | Gemini 3 Flash (12/25) Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 20.2% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Not enough data for apps using this model yet.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Frequently asked questions
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 use performance with substantially lower latency than larger Gemini variants, making it well suited for interactive development, long running agent loops, and collaborative coding tasks.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) costs $0.25/M input tokens and $1.50/M output tokens, with separate rates for Image Input at $0.25/M tokens, Input Audio at $0.50/M tokens, and Web Search at $14.00/1K calls.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.
Yes. Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) accepts text, images, files such as PDFs, audio, and video as input and returns text.
Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Google Vertex.
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Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) was released on December 17, 2025.