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 Flash LatestGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Dec 17, 2025 | Mar 29, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | 1.7K tokens | — |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.50Best | $0.75 |
| Output | $3.00Best | $3.75 |
| Cache read | $0.05Best | $0.075 |
| Cache write | — | $0.0417 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 153.3 tok/s | 174.8 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 6.4 s | 5.6 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.9% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 26.3 | 39.8Best |
| Coding Index | — | 74.1 |
| Math Index | 97.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | 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 Flash Latest
Intelligence Index
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking26.3
- Gemini Flash Latest39.8
Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: Better than 66% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 74.1
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 97.0
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 60.9%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 31.1%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 1,181 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 1,423 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 22.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%
- Gemini Flash Latest: 84.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 12.8%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 36.6%
- Gemini Flash Latest: 42.1%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 89.8%
- Gemini Flash Latest: 93.5%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 89.0%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 19.7%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: —
- Gemini Flash Latest: 55.1%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 90.8%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 97.0%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 38.6%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 80.4%
- Gemini Flash Latest: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking: 78.0%
- Gemini Flash Latest: 84.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemini 3 Flash Thinking
- Gemini Flash Latest
| Leaderboard | Gemini 3 Flash Thinking | Gemini Flash Latest |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #18 · 15.1% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
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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