Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Google · released Dec 17, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $0.50
- Output
- $3.00
- Cached
- Not published
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 1M context · source ↗ · a reseller below undercuts it; the table carries the spread
Our take
Written Aug 3, 2026Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a hosted-only multimodal model from Google that accepts text, images, files, audio and video in a single request of up to one million tokens. It launched in late 2025 with six pricing tiers but no published quality scores yet.
Choose this when you need genuine long-context multimodal work — one million tokens with text, images, files, audio and video together — and you are comfortable using Google's own hosting. It is the cheapest option at the entry tier, though the same provider charges much more for a slower tier of the identical model. Skip it if you need verified quality data to judge performance, or if you want to run the model on your own hardware.
The case for it
- One of the largest disclosed request limits in the catalogue, at 1,048,576 tokens.
- Broadest multimodal input support we track: text, images, files, audio and video simultaneously.
- The cheapest tier costs several times less than the most expensive tier for the same model.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in the catalogue, so performance is unverified.
- Throughput varies more than fivefold across tiers: 94 tokens per second at the cheapest tier versus 17.5 at the most expensive on the same provider.
- The same provider charges several times more for slower throughput on an identical model.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up Gemini 3 Flash Preview — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes Google AI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.50 in / $3.00 out
- Context served
- 1M
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Vertex AIglobal | $0.25 / $1.50 | 1M | 21 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI Studioflex tier | $0.25 / $1.50 | 1M | 76 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| OpenRouter | $0.50 / $3.00 | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AI | $0.50 / $3.00 | 1M66K out | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AI Studio | $0.50 / $3.00 | 1M | 60 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google AI Studiopriority tier | $0.90 / $5.40 | 1M | 51 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
Google Vertex AI
Google AI StudioAcross the 6 listings we hold: 4 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 1 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Vertex AIglobal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI Studioflex | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI | |||
| Google AI Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI Studiopriority | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 5 of 6 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 5 of 6 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 5 of 6 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list.
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 6 listings publish no parameter list, so what their API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 6 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file+audio+video->text
- Catalogue slug
- google-gemini-3-flash-preview