Gemini 3 Flash Preview

The Flash tier of the Gemini 3 generation, built to match Gemini 2.5 Pro at Flash-level speed.

Context: 1M tokens
Max output: 66K
Cutoff: Jan 2025
Released: Dec 2025

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Hosted API price

List price via Google Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.50 /1M
Output: $3.00 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Gemini 3 Flash Preview, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Gemini 3 Flash Preview, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Google Cloud Creator	$0.50	$3.00	$0.05	$11.00	Visit website
Replicate	$0.50	$3.00		$11.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Gemini 3 Flash Preview by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Gemini 3 Flash Preview per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	256K		−27%
Qwen3.5-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.7333	$0.40	$2.40	1M		−20%
GLM-5 Z.AI	$0.7667	$0.60	$1.60	200K		−16%
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80	131K		−13%
GLM-4.7 Z.AI	$0.8667	$0.60	$2.20	205K		−5%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview This model Google Cloud	$0.9167	$0.50	$3.00	1M	Jan 2025
Qwen3.6-Plus Alibaba Cloud	$0.9167	$0.50	$3.00	1M		0%
GLM-5.2 Z.AI	$0.95	$0.70	$2.20	1M		+4%
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nvidia	$0.99	$0.66	$2.64	1M	Sep 2025	+8%
DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek	$1.00	$0.70	$2.50	128K		+9%
DeepSeek R1 Turbo DeepSeek	$1.00	$0.70	$2.50	64K		+9%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts and can do, as published by Google Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Video Accepts video as input.
Audio Accepts audio as input.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.
Web search Search the web for up-to-date information.
Code execution Write and execute code in a sandboxed environment.
File upload Process uploaded documents, spreadsheets, and other files.

Common questions

What is Gemini 3 Flash Preview good for?

Multimodal work at the Flash tier of the Gemini 3 generation, in the middle of Google's price range.

When is Gemini 3 Flash Preview not a good fit?

New projects: Gemini 3.6 Flash supersedes it, and it is still a preview release, though no shutdown date is announced. Closed weights, so no self-hosting.

What is the cheapest way to run Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

The cheapest hosted rate is $0.50 / $3.00 per 1M tokens via Google Cloud.

How does Gemini 3 Flash Preview compare with Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash builds on the same Gemini 3 base as Gemini 3 Flash Preview, calls it its strongest agent and coding model yet, and adds built-in computer use, keeps reasoning across turns automatically and lowers the default thinking effort. Same 1M-token context and text, image, audio and video input. Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at 67% less per 1M input tokens and 67% less per 1M output tokens than Gemini 3.5 Flash. It came out 5 months earlier.

Can I self-host Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

No. Google Cloud does not publish the weights; Gemini 3 Flash Preview is available only through hosted APIs.