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Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)

Added Dec 17, 2025

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Google's Gemini 3 Flash preview model optimized for speed while maintaining high capability. Features sub-second response times with strong multimodal understanding and reasoning. Audio input costs $1.00 per million audio tokens.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
  • Vision
  • Structured output
  • 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)
592 tokens
Longer than 54% of 465 models

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Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)GoogleThis modelGemini Flash LatestGoogleRemove
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Discovery tierEfficientEfficient
AddedDec 17, 2025Mar 29, 2026
Limits
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output65.54K65.54K
Average output592 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
Throughput211.2 tok/sBest168.9 tok/s
Time to first token1.3 sBest4.9 s
Request success (24h)99.8%99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index17.939.8Best
Coding Index—74.1
Math Index55.7—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
PDF inputNoYes
Audio inputYesYes
Video inputYesYes
Reasoning effortminimal, low, medium, highminimal, low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)
  • Gemini Flash Latest

Intelligence Index

  • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)17.9
  • Gemini Flash Latest39.8

Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): Better than 47% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 74.1

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.7
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 60.9%

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 31.1%

  • AA-Briefcasev1.1

    Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 1,181 Elo

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 1,423 Elo

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 22.8%

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.3%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 84.0%Top

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 12.8%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 15.0%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 42.1%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 81.2%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 93.5%Top

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 88.2%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.1%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 19.7%

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 55.1%

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 79.7%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.7%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 31.8%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 43.3%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.3%
    • Gemini Flash Latest: 84.0%Top

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
211.2 tok/s
Faster than 84% of 250 models
Time to first token
1.3 s
Quicker than 91% of 250 models
Prompt cache hits
0.0%
About $0.50 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
99.8%
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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 94.1%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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",
    "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",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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