Gemini 3 Flash
Google's April 2026 fast multimodal model. Combines Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning with Flash-tier latency and price. Default model in the Gemini app.
Gemini 3 Flash is multimodal AI model from Google DeepMind, priced at β¬0.001 per 1M input tokens with a 1.0M tokens context window.
About this model
0.7
Pricing
API Integration
Use our OpenAI-compatible API to integrate Gemini 3 Flash into your application.
npm install railwailimport railwail from "railwail";
const rw = railwail("YOUR_API_KEY");
// Simple β just pass a string
const reply = await rw.run("gemini-3-flash", "Hello! What can you do?");
console.log(reply);
// With message history
const reply2 = await rw.run("gemini-3-flash", [
{ role: "system", content: "You are a helpful assistant." },
{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing simply." },
]);
console.log(reply2);
// Full response with usage info
const res = await rw.chat("gemini-3-flash", [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" },
], { temperature: 0.7, max_tokens: 500 });
console.log(res.choices[0].message.content);
console.log(res.usage);Deep dive β Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Flash
Google DeepMind is the merged AI research organisation formed in April 2023 by combining Google Brain with DeepMind. Demis Hassabis leads the unit as CEO. Flash variants have been Google's high-throughput tier since Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024), with Gemini 2.0 Flash (December 2024), 2.5 Flash (mid-2025) and Gemini 3 Flash (April 2026) representing the progression. DeepMind's seminal papers include 'Attention Is All You Need' (2017), AlphaGo (2016), AlphaFold (2018-2021, Nobel Prize 2024) and the Gemini Technical Report.
Visit Google DeepMind βGemini 3 Flash was announced April 22, 2026 as the default Flash-tier model and the new default model in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. It is a natively multimodal Sparse MoE Transformer engineered to combine Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning quality with Flash-grade latency, efficiency and cost. Pretraining used Google's TPU v6e infrastructure on a multi-trillion-token mixture of web text, code, books, image-text pairs, audio and video frames. Post-training combined supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, RL against verifiable rewards and distillation from larger Gemini 3.1 Pro teacher models. The architecture preserves Gemini's native multimodality across text, image, audio and video, the full tool-use API and Search grounding, while running at a fraction of Pro pricing. Gemini 3 Flash is the recommended default for high-throughput agentic workflows and consumer-facing multimodal chat.
- Parameters
- Undisclosed (sparse MoE, smaller and sparser than Gemini 3.1 Pro)
- Context
- 1.0M tokens
- Pro-grade reasoning at Flash latency
- 1,048,576 token context window
- Natively multimodal: text, image, audio and video
- Search grounding and Code Execution built into the API
- Function calling, JSON schema and parallel tool calls
- Default model in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search
- PhD-level reasoning on common benchmarks
- Available via Vertex AI, AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise, Antigravity and the Gemini app
- Strong long-video understanding (hour-long clips)
- Cross-lingual fluency across 100+ languages
- Best for: high-throughput agentic workflows, real-time multimodal chat, RAG, consumer applications.
Pretrained on a multi-trillion-token mixture of web text, code, books, scientific papers, image-text pairs, audio and video frames. Heavily distilled from larger Gemini 3.1 Pro teacher models. Post-training uses supervised fine-tuning, RLHF and RL against verifiable rewards. Knowledge cutoff in late 2025.
License: Proprietary commercial license via Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Free tier available in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
Known limitations
- Below Gemini 3.1 Pro on the hardest reasoning and long-context benchmarks
- Smaller context window than 3.1 Pro (1M vs 2M)
- Vision can misread dense tables and handwriting
- Region availability is rolling out in 2026
- Audio output not yet supported
Frequently asked questions
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