Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Google · released Dec 17, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $0.50
- Output
- $3.00
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · Google AI at 1M context · machine-readable source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 3, 2026Gemini 3 Flash Preview is Google's multimodal model that accepts text, images, files, audio and video in a single request, with a one-million-token limit. It offers six pricing tiers that let you trade speed for cost, though no benchmark scores have been published yet.
Pick this for long-context workloads up to about one million tokens where cost matters, or for multimodal pipelines that need every input type in one model. Use the faster Google AI Studio tier for high-throughput prototyping if you can accept the price premium. Skip it if you need verified quality scores, a disclosed licence, or guaranteed long-term availability — this is a preview release with unpublished architecture.
The case for it
- One-million-token request limit, among the largest context windows we hold.
- Accepts text, images, files, audio and video simultaneously — broader input coverage than most models.
- Six tiers let you trade speed for cost: the fastest option delivers more than twenty times the throughput of the cheapest.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data — chat, reasoning, coding and multimodal quality are all unverified.
- Preview status with unpublished parameter count and no disclosed licence.
- The cheapest tier is extremely slow; reaching usable speed requires paying several times more on output.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Google AI, direct
The lab is the cheapest at this context. The strip above and this offer are the same one, compared at 1M of context. 2 cheaper rows below are outside that comparison: a non-standard pricing tier.
- 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 AI Studioflex tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.25 / $1.50checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 61 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIflex tierglobalThrough OpenRouter | $0.25 / $1.50checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 20 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | $0.50 / $3.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 88 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.50 / $3.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | $0.50 / $3.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 70 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
| Google AIDirect | $0.50 / $3.00checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Google Vertex AIpriority tierglobalThrough OpenRouter | $0.90 / $5.40checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 67 tok/s | No | No | Confirmed |
| Google AI Studiopriority tierThrough OpenRouter | $0.90 / $5.40checked 2 hours ago | 1M66K max reply | 36 tok/s | No | Yes55 days | Unknown |
Google AI Studio
Google Vertex AI
OpenRouterAcross the 8 listings we hold: 6 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 2 do not say. 3 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI StudioflexThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIflex · globalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Vertex AIglobalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudioThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AIDirect | |||
| Google Vertex AIpriority · globalThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google AI StudiopriorityThrough OpenRouter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 7 of 8 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. JSON output: 7 of 8 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list. Strict schema: 7 of 8 listings say yes, 1 publishes no parameter list.
Models people weigh against Gemini 3 Flash Preview
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- 1 of 8 listings publishes no parameter list, so what its API accepts is unknown to us.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 2 of 8 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
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
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images, audio, video and documents in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- google-gemini-3-flash-preview