Gemini 3 Flash: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks
Gemini 3 Flash is a language model from Google, released in December 2025, with multimodal input, a 1M-token context window, and pricing from $0.500/M input, $0.050/M cached input, $3.00/M output.
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. It combines Gemini 3's Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency, efficiency and cost. Features a 1 million-token input context window and is
Gemini 3 Flash benchmarks
Rankings
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Gemini 3 Flash Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Thu Aug 06 2026Gemini 3 Flash pricing
Providers
Gemini 3 Flash starts at $0.500 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens via Google. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.0500 per million cached input tokens.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Google | $0.500 | $0.0500 | $3.00 | 1.0M/65.5K | 4.11 | 65 | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Gemini 3 Flash context window
Input and output token limits for Gemini 3 Flash, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
Gemini 3 Flash API
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Use it in your code
Billed at $0.50 input / $0.05 cached input / $3.00 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemini-3-flash-preview",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.
Gemini 3 Flash latency
Gemini 3 Flash time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.
Provider operational metrics
Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic
Gemini 3 Flash examples
Recent arena outputs from Gemini 3 Flash, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Gemini 3 Flash license
Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Gemini 3 Flash resources
Official sources for Gemini 3 Flash: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.
Gemini 3 Flash vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Gemini 3 Flash are Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1 High. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Gemini 3 Flash
Models ranked just above and below Gemini 3 Flash by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Gemini 3 Flash.