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Gemini 3 Flash — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

Chatbot Arena ELO
1473
Output Speed
200 tok/s
Input Cost
$0.50/1M
Output Cost
$3.0/1M
Context Window
1.0M
Max Output
66K
Accepts
text, image, file, audio, video

Gemini 3 Flash by Google demonstrates top-tier general intelligence, excellent coding ability, fast output speed, competitive pricing. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

Specifications last checked against the provider on . Benchmark scores carry their own source, linked beside each number.

General Benchmarks

Chatbot Arena ELO
14737th of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace
MMLU-Pro
88.6%4th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard
IFEval
89.0%10th of 25

Strict instruction following accuracy on verifiable constraints

Google Research

Coding Benchmarks

Website Arena ELO
120848th of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
LiveCodeBench
55.0%23rd of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
HumanEval+
86.0%30th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
SWE-bench Verified
78.0%7th of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com
Design Arena ELO
120340th of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
95.0%21st of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
85.0%24th of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

τ²-Bench Airline
77.3%8th of 93

Multi-turn service agent making tool calls under strict policy constraints

OpenRouter (measured)
ARC-AGI
30.0%30th of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
88.3%20th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
100 ms5th of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
200 tok/s8th of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Cached Input Cost
$0.0544th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$3.0280th of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API
Input Cost
$0.50242nd of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
1.0M18th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Available from 5 providers

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. You can bring your own key for 1 of these — connect it here.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCached inContextYour key
Poe$0.4$2.4$0.041.0M—
LLM Gateway$0.5$3$0.051.0M—
NanoGPT$0.5$3$0.051.0M—
OpenCode Zen$0.5$3$0.051.0M—
Vercel AI Gateway$0.5$3$0.051.0MSupported

Gemini 3 Flash — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

Gemini 3 Flash — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash scores 1473 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it one of the top-ranked AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does Gemini 3 Flash cost?

Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3.0 per 1M output tokens. This makes it one of the more affordable models.

How fast is Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash generates output at 200 tokens per second, which is very fast compared to other models. The time to first token is 100 ms.

How good is Gemini 3 Flash at coding?

Gemini 3 Flash achieves 78.0% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating excellent real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is Gemini 3 Flash at math and reasoning?

Gemini 3 Flash scores 85.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 88.3% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash has a context window of 1.0M tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created Gemini 3 Flash?

Gemini 3 Flash was created by Google. It is classified as a mid model in our catalogue.

Is Gemini 3 Flash open source?

No, Gemini 3 Flash is a proprietary model. It is available through Google's API and compatible providers.