Gemini 3 Flash
Released Dec 9, 2025 · 812B tokens this week · 2 providers
Overview
The high-throughput member of the Gemini 3 family: most of Pro quality for a small fraction of the cost. The huge context window and low latency make it a favourite for retrieval and document pipelines at scale. Multimodal input is included at the same price.
Providers
Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic
| PROVIDER | MAX OUT | OUTPUT /M | QUANT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Google AI StudioCheapest | 1.05M | 66K | $0.30 | $2.50 | 330ms | 285 | 99.93% | Full |
Google Vertex AI | 1.05M | 66K | $0.32 | $2.63 | 380ms | 260 | 99.88% | Full |
Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.
Price comparison
Blended $ per 1M tokens
Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.
Call it
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go
curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemini-3-flash",
"messages": [
{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
]
}'