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Gemini 3 Flash

Vérifié par l’équipe de recherche de GetInfoUsDernière révision : October 2026Politique éditoriale
75
Intelligence Index

Next-génération Flash architecture bringing de pointe-classe raisonnement et multimodal débit à faible coût.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Google
Category
flagship
Release Date
2025-12
Knowledge Cutoff
September 2025
Architecture
Next-gen sparse multimodal mixture-of-experts
Parameters
Confidential
Context Window
1.0M tokens
Max Output
66K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.125 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
$20 / month
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
No (Proprietary Cloud)
Input Modalities
text, vision, audio, video
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
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Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
API payloads are excluded from model training by default
Model License & Commercial Rights
Proprietary Commercial API (Google Terms)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Google AI Studio API, Google Cloud Vertex AI
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
models/gemini-3-flash
Supported SDK & API Protocol
Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2027+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.125/1M with configurable TTL
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec)
Weights Precision & Quantization
Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Supported Inference Engines
Managed Google Cloud API
System Card & Safety Framework
Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Gemini 3 Flash Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$63.75$75.00
Monthly Savings: $11.25 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.

Break-even point: ~157 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Gemini 3 Flash (Active)
$63.75
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Gemini 3 Flash:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$29.44/mo
Saves $34.31/mo (54% cost reduction) vs sending 100% of traffic to Gemini 3 Flash.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (76)Reasoning (91)Knowledge (86)Speed (100)Context (100)Cost Value (84)
Gemini 3 Flash2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
66.5%
GPQA Diamond
79%
MMLU-Pro
85.8%
HumanEval
93.5%
AIME
88%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1425pts

Strengths

  • de pointe-grade raisonnement à sous-dollar entrée coûts
  • Complete natif vidéo et audio traitement
  • Superb appel d'outils précision

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • Limites de débit de l'API préliminaire pendant le déploiement
  • raisonnement tokens add à total bill

Editorial Assessment

Sets un new standard pour élevé-performances economical AI heading dans 2026.

Best for: production multimodal logiciel agents et en temps réel interactif intelligence

Frequently Asked Questions about Gemini 3 Flash

How much does the Gemini 3 Flash API cost per 1M tokens?+

Gemini 3 Flash by Google is priced at $0.5 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.125 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Gemini 3 Flash pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Gemini 3 Flash's context window?+

Gemini 3 Flash features a 1.0M tokens context window, which equals approximately 786,432 English words or ~2,097 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 65,536 tokens.

Can I run Gemini 3 Flash locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

No, Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Google. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Google's official API or cloud platform.

Does Google train on data sent to the Gemini 3 Flash API, and is commercial use allowed?+

API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Google Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Google AI Studio API, Google Cloud Vertex AI.

How does Gemini 3 Flash perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Gemini 3 Flash achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 75/100, scoring 66.5% on SWE-bench Verified, 79% on GPQA Diamond, 85.8% on MMLU-Pro, and 1425 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Gemini 3 Flash best used for?+

Gemini 3 Flash is best suited for: production multimodal logiciel agents et en temps réel interactif intelligence. Assessment: Sets un new standard pour élevé-performances economical AI heading dans 2026.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: Google Cloud Vertex AI & DeepMind Release Notes↗