Gemini 3 Flash

Best for frontier intelligence at speed

Our latest Gemini 3 model that helps you bring any idea to life - faster.

Intelligence in a Flash

Get Gemini 3 Pro’s level of reasoning with Flash-level latency and efficiency – at a fraction of the cost

Gemini 3 Flash is our most impressive model for agentic workflows.

Speed and scale don’t have to come at the cost of intelligence.

Frontier-level multimodal understanding across text, audio, images, code, and video.

High quality intelligence at a fraction of the cost.


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Efficiency doesn’t come at the cost of intelligence

Here are just a few ways you can use Gemini 3 Flash’s multimodal and frontier-level, real-time reasoning capabilities at speed.



Performance

Gemini 3 Flash demonstrates that speed and scale don’t have to come at the cost of intelligence

Benchmark Notes Gemini 3 Flash Thinking Gemini 3 Pro Thinking Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking Gemini 2.5 Pro Thinking Claude Sonnet 4.5 Thinking GPT-5.2 Extra high Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
Input price $/1M tokens $0.50 $2.00 $4.00 > 200k tokens $0.30 $1.25 $2.50 > 200k tokens $3.00 $6.00 /MTok > 200k tokens $1.75 $0.20
Output price $/1M tokens $3.00 $12.00 $18.00 > 200k tokens $2.50 $10.00 $15.00 > 200k tokens $15.00 $22.50 > 200k tokens $14.00 $0.50
Academic reasoning
(full set, text + MM) Humanity's Last Exam No tools 33.7% 37.5% 11.0% 21.6% 13.7% 34.5% 17.6%
With search and code execution 43.5% 45.8% 45.5%
Visual reasoning puzzles ARC-AGI-2 ARC Prize Verified 33.6% 31.1% 2.5% 4.9% 13.6% 52.9%
Scientific knowledge GPQA Diamond No tools 90.4% 91.9% 82.8% 86.4% 83.4% 92.4% 84.3%
Mathematics AIME 2025 No tools 95.2% 95.0% 72.0% 88.0% 87.0% 100% 91.9%
With code execution 99.7% 100% 75.7% 100%
Multimodal understanding and reasoning MMMU-Pro 81.2% 81.0% 66.7% 68.0% 68.0% 79.5% 63.0%
Screen understanding ScreenSpot-Pro No tools unless specified 69.1% 72.7% 3.9% 11.4% 36.2% 86.3% with python
Information synthesis from complex charts CharXiv Reasoning No tools 80.3% 81.4% 63.7% 69.6% 68.5% 82.1%
OCR OmniDocBench 1.5 Overall Edit Distance, lower is better 0.121 0.115 0.154 0.145 0.145 0.143
Knowledge acquisition from videos Video-MMMU 86.9% 87.6% 79.2% 83.6% 77.8% 85.9%
Competitive coding problems from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI LiveCodeBench Pro Elo Rating, higher is better 2316 2439 1143 1775 1418 2393
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminus-2 harness 47.6% 54.2% 16.9% 32.6% 42.8%
Agentic coding SWE-bench Verified Single attempt 78.0% 76.2% 60.4% 59.6% 77.2% 80.0% 50.6%
Agentic tool use τ2-bench 90.2% 90.7% 79.5% 77.8% 87.2%
Long horizon real-world software tasks Toolathlon 49.4% 36.4% 3.7% 10.5% 38.9% 46.3%
Multi-step workflows using MCP MCP Atlas 57.4% 54.1% 3.4% 8.8% 43.8% 60.6%
Agentic long term coherence Vending-Bench 2 Net worth (mean), higher is better $3,635 $5,478 $549 $574 $3,839 $3,952 $1,107
Factuality benchmark across grounding, parametric, search, and MM FACTS Benchmark Suite 61.9% 70.5% 50.4% 63.4% 48.9% 61.4% 42.1%
Parametric knowledge SimpleQA Verified 68.7% 72.1% 28.1% 54.5% 29.3% 38.0% 19.5%
Multilingual Q&A MMMLU 91.8% 91.8% 86.6% 89.5% 89.1% 89.6% 86.8%
Commonsense reasoning across 100 Languages and Cultures Global PIQA 92.8% 93.4% 90.2% 91.5% 90.1% 91.2% 85.6%
Long context performance MRCR v2 (8-needle) 128k (average) 67.2% 77.0% 54.3% 58.0% 47.1% 81.9% 54.6%
1M (pointwise) 22.1% 26.3% 21.0% 16.4% not supported not supported 6.1%

For details on our evaluation methodology please see deepmind.google/models/evals-methodology/gemini-3-flash


Model information

Name
3 Flash
Status
Preview
Input
  • Text
  • Image
  • Video
  • Audio
  • PDF
Output
  • Text
Input tokens
1M
Output tokens
64k
Knowledge cutoff
January 2025
Tool use
  • Function calling
  • Structured output
  • Search as a tool
  • Code execution
Best for
  • Everyday tasks
  • Agentic coding
  • Advanced reasoning
  • Multimodal understanding
  • Long context understanding
Availability
  • Gemini App
  • Google Cloud / Vertex AI
  • Google AI Studio
  • Gemini API
  • Gemini CLI
  • Gemini Enterprise
  • Google AI Mode
  • Google Antigravity
  • Android Studio
Documentation
View developer docs
Model card
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