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Released December 17, 2025

Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Google Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a Google model built for fast multimodal understanding, agentic and vibe-coding workflows, and structured tool use.

Inputs
Text
Image
File
Audio
Video
Outputs
Text

Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

Gemini 3 Flash Preview - multimodal agentic Flash model

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is built for multimodal understanding and fast interactive work. It is positioned as a Flash model with agentic behavior and vibe-coding use.

Distinctive traitWhat is documented
Multimodal focusDescribed as a model for multimodal understanding.
Agentic and vibe-coding useCalled an agentic and vibe-coding model.
Interactive visual workPositioned for visuals and interactivity.
Thinking and toolsSupports thinking, code execution, computer use, file search, function calling, grounding, structured outputs, and URL context.

Model behavior

Its documented use pattern combines multimodal input with tool use for interactive tasks.

Supported inputs

The model accepts text, image, video, audio, and PDF inputs. The documentation also lists caching and Batch API support, which fits its preview role as a developer-facing Flash model.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

26.3%
Intelligence

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science89.8%
Humanity's Last Exam36.6%
SciCode - Scientific Coding50.6%
Instruction Following78.0%
Long Context Reasoning78.0%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks80.4%
TerminalBench - System Control38.6%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderGoogleAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateDecember 17, 2025September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff--Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window
1.0M
Best Context Window
1M1M
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Input Pricing
$0.50
Best Input Pricing
$4$2
Output Pricing
$3
Best Output Pricing
$20$10
Modalities
Inputs
textimagefileaudiovideo
textimagefile
textimagefile
Outputs
text
text
text
Benchmarks (0-100)
Intelligence Index17.9
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index---
Agentic Index---
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

15%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 15%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

55%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 55%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

50%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 50%
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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