Google · Efficient
Gemini 3 Flash Thinking
Google's Gemini 3 Flash preview model with thinking mode enabled for enhanced reasoning and chain-of-thought capabilities. Audio input costs $1.00 per million audio tokens.
- Reasoning
- Vision
- Audio input
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- minimal · low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.50
- Output
- $3.00
- Cache read
- $0.05
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.7K tokens
- Longer than 89% of 468 models
Side by side
Gemini 3 Flash Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemini 3 Flash ThinkingGoogleThis model | Gemini 3.5 Flash ThinkingGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Dec 17, 2025 | May 19, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 1.7K tokens | 1.7K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.50Best | $1.50 |
| Output | $3.00Best | $9.00 |
| Cache read | $0.05Best | $0.15 |
| Cache write | — | $0.0833 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 153.3 tok/s | 255.7 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 6.4 sBest | 10.3 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 89.1% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 26.3 | 32.6Best |
| Coding Index | — | 70.1 |
| Math Index | 97.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high | minimal, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking26.3
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking32.6
Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: Better than 66% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 70.1
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 97.0
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 42.1%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 13.5%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 874 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 1,202 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 19.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 73.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 10.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 36.6%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 42.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 89.8%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 92.2%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 89.0%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 76.3%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 6.6%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 53.9%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 90.8%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 97.0%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 38.6%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 40.9%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 80.4%
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 95.3%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%Top
- Gemini 3.5 Flash Thinking: 73.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 153.3 tok/s
- Faster than 76% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 6.4 s
- Quicker than 27% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 29.9%
- About $0.37 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-3-flash-preview-thinking",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemini-3-flash-preview-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
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