# Gemini 3 Flash Preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a model from Google, released on 17 Dec 2025. The context window is 1,048,576 tokens. The maximum output is 65,536 tokens. Pricing is $1.00 (audio); $0.50 (text / image / video) per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens.

- Developer: Google
- Id: gemini-3-flash-preview
- Reported: 2026-11-13T18:41:15.000Z
- Released: 2025-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Sighting: 2026-09-22T02:43:17.450Z
  - [evidence link](https://models.dev/#gemini-3-flash-preview)
- Status: Released
- Product update: 2025-12-17
  - [evidence link](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-3-flash-frontier-intelligence-built-for-speed/)
- Public preview: 2025-12-17
  - [evidence link](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-3-flash-frontier-intelligence-built-for-speed/)
- Canonical: https://alexgetman.com/models/google/gemini-3-flash-preview/

## Questions

### What is the context window of Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

The context window is 1,048,576 tokens. The maximum output is 65,536 tokens.

### How much does Gemini 3 Flash Preview cost?

Pricing is $1.00 (audio); $0.50 (text / image / video) per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.10 (audio); $0.05 (text / image / video) per million.

### When was Gemini 3 Flash Preview released?

On 17 Dec 2025.

- `gemini-3-flash-preview` · batch · Context caching price: $1.00 / million token hours · / 1,000,000 tokens per hour (storage price)
- `gemini-3-flash-preview` · flex · Context caching price: $1.00 / million token hours · / 1,000,000 tokens per hour (storage price)
- `gemini-3-flash-preview` · priority · Context caching price: $1.80 / million token hours · / 1,000,000 tokens per hour (storage price)
- `gemini-3-flash-preview` · standard · Context caching price: $1.00 / million token hours · / 1,000,000 tokens per hour (storage price)
## Timeline

- 2026-11-13T18:50:23.617Z · [GitHub search · Google · commits · yetone/magpie · @yetone](https://github.com/yetone/magpie/commit/70bd270ae26c995b4538b3259e008c7a5883575d)
> models (Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash, Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.6, GPT-OSS

## Evidence links

- [review](https://aistudio.google.com/api-reference/models)
- [review](https://aistudio.google.com/docs/changelog)
- [gemini-model-index](https://aistudio.google.com/docs/models/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- [gemini-pricing](https://aistudio.google.com/docs/pricing)
- [Artificial Analysis · benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models)
- [vertex-google-models](https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google/model-garden/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- [google-articles](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-3-flash-frontier-intelligence-built-for-speed/)
- [GitHub search · Google · commits · yetone/magpie · @yetone](https://github.com/yetone/magpie/commit/70bd270ae26c995b4538b3259e008c7a5883575d)
- [models.dev · catalogue](https://models.dev/#databricks-gemini-3-flash)
- [models-dev](https://models.dev/#gemini-3-flash-preview)
- [models.dev · catalogue](https://models.dev/#gemini-3.0-flash-preview)
- [OpenCode · discovery](https://opencode.ai/data/google/gemini-3-flash-preview)
- [VoxelBench · leaderboard](https://voxelbench.ai/leaderboard)

## Signals

- [Gemini 3 Flash Preview spotted on VoxelBench](https://alexgetman.com/signals/2026/09/15/gemini-3-flash-preview/)