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Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash is an AI model made by Google. Google released it on 17 December 2025. It is in preview. It takes text, image, audio, video and returns text.

Google

Gemini 3 Flash is an AI model made by Google. Google released it on 17 December 2025. It is in preview. It takes text, image, audio, video and returns text. Its knowledge cutoff is January 2025.

Released: 17 December 2025 — ai.google.dev, read 16 October 2026
Status: Preview — ai.google.dev, read 16 October 2026
Takes: Text, Image, Audio, Video — storage.googleapis.com, read 16 October 2026
Returns: Text — storage.googleapis.com, read 16 October 2026
Open weights: Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not state whether Gemini 3 Flash has open or downloadable weights.
Licence: Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not name a licence for Gemini 3 Flash weights.
Context window: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 1000000 and 1048576
Longest answer: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 64000 and 65536
Knowledge cutoff: January 2025 — ai.google.dev, read 16 October 2026
API price, input: Not confirmed: the reading gave a value this register cannot hold
API price, output: $3.00 per 1M tokens — ai.google.dev, read 16 October 2026
Where: API, Consumer app, Cloud marketplaces — blog.google, read 16 October 2026
Parameters: Not confirmed: The maker's pages reviewed do not publish the model's parameter count.
Model card: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Flash-Model-Card.pdf — storage.googleapis.com, read 16 October 2026

Benchmarks

Measured by others, not by the maker: each score with the name the measurer gives the model and the setting it ran, its day and its licence.

Arena

Text Arena, gemini-3-flash: 1,473 (1,468–1,477, 31,325 votes), published 15 October 2026
Text Arena, gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal): 1,458 (1,455–1,461, 91,039 votes), published 15 October 2026
Code Arena (WebDev), Gemini 3 Flash: 1,440 (1,432–1,449, 10,896 votes), published 18 October 2026
Code Arena (WebDev), Gemini 3 Flash (Minimal): 1,385 (1,380–1,390, 22,149 votes), published 18 October 2026
Vision Arena, gemini-3-flash: 1,273 (1,268–1,278, 39,145 votes), published 9 October 2026
Vision Arena, gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal): 1,260 (1,255–1,265, 37,172 votes), published 9 October 2026

Arena’s leaderboard dataset (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face), CC BY 4.0: ratings from people’s votes between two anonymous models, as Arena publishes them. Data · CC BY 4.0

Epoch AI

Epoch Capabilities Index, Gemini 3 Flash: 151.8 (150.5–153.4), as of 19 October 2026
GPQA Diamond, gemini-3-flash-preview_high: 89.4% (± 2.2), run 6 August 2026
GPQA Diamond, gemini-3-flash-preview: 83.2% (± 1.9), run 17 December 2025
FrontierMath, tiers 1–3, gemini-3-flash-preview: 51.2% (± 3.0), run 11 June 2026
FrontierMath, tier 4, gemini-3-flash-preview: 17.1% (± 5.9), run 11 June 2026
SWE-bench Verified, gemini-3-flash-preview: 75.4% (± 2.0), run 18 February 2026
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025, gemini-3-flash-preview_high: 95.6% (± 3.1), run 6 August 2026
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025, gemini-3-flash-preview: 92.8% (± 3.5), run 17 December 2025
SimpleQA Verified, gemini-3-flash-preview_high: 66.8% (± 1.5), run 27 August 2026

Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’, epoch.ai/benchmarks, CC BY 4.0: Epoch AI’s own runs and its Capabilities Index. Data · CC BY 4.0

Questions

When was Gemini 3 Flash released?

Google released Gemini 3 Flash on 17 December 2025.

Is Gemini 3 Flash still available?

It is in preview: Google has not made it generally available yet.

What does Gemini 3 Flash take and return?

Gemini 3 Flash takes text, image, audio, video and returns text.

What is the knowledge cutoff of Gemini 3 Flash?

The knowledge cutoff of Gemini 3 Flash is January 2025.

Sources

Gemini deprecations (read 16 October 2026)
Gemini 3 Flash - Model Card (read 16 October 2026)
Gemini Developer API pricing (read 16 October 2026)
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed (read 16 October 2026)
Gemini 3 Flash preview (read 16 October 2026)

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