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Gemini 3 Flash

Gemini 3 Flash combines Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning capabilities with the Flash line's levels on latency, efficiency, and cost. It not only enables everyday tasks with improved reasoning, but is designed to tackle the most complex agentic workflows.

See Get started with Gemini 3 for information on what's new with the Gemini 3 family of models.

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Model ID	`gemini-3-flash-preview`
Modalities	Text Input and output Image Input only Audio Input only Video Input only
Token limits	Context window	1,048,576
Token limits	Maximum output tokens	65,536
Capabilities	Thinking Supported System instructions Supported Structured output Supported Context caching Implicit context caching, explicit context caching Supported RAG Engine Supported Tuning Not supported Agentic video understanding Not supported
Tools	Grounding Google Search Supported Code execution Supported Function calling Supported URL context Supported Computer use Preview feature Supported
APIs	GenerateContent API Supported Interactions API Preview feature Not supported Gemini Live API Not supported Count Tokens API Supported Chat Completions API Supported
Consumption options	Provisioned Throughput Supported Batch inference Supported Pay-as-you-go Standard PayGo, Flex PayGo, Priority PayGo Supported Fixed quota Not supported
Technical specifications	Image	Maximum images per prompt: 3000 Maximum file size per file for inline data or direct uploads through the console: 7 MB Maximum file size per file from Google Cloud Storage: 30 MB Default resolution tokens: 1120 Supported MIME types: `image/png`, `image/jpeg`, `image/webp`, `image/heic`, `image/heif`
	Text	Maximum number of files per prompt: 3000 Maximum number of pages per file: 3000 Maximum file size per file for the API or Cloud Storage imports: 50 MB(application/pdf) or 7 MB(text/plain) Maximum file size per file for direct uploads through the console: 7 MB Default resolution tokens: 560 OCR for scanned PDFs: Not used by default Supported MIME types: `application/pdf`, `text/plain`
	Video	Maximum video length (with audio): Approximately 45 minutes Maximum video length (without audio): Approximately 1 hour Maximum number of videos per prompt: 10 Default resolution tokens per frame: 70 Supported MIME types: `video/x-flv`, `video/quicktime`, `video/mpeg`, `video/mpegs`, `video/mpg`, `video/mp4`, `video/webm`, `video/wmv`, `video/3gpp`
	Audio	Maximum audio length per prompt: Approximately 8.4 hours, or up to 1 million tokens Maximum number of audio files per prompt: 1 Speech understanding for: Audio summarization, transcription, and translation Supported MIME types: `audio/x-aac`, `audio/flac`, `audio/mp3`, `audio/m4a`, `audio/mpeg`, `audio/mpga`, `audio/mp4`, `audio/ogg`, `audio/pcm`, `audio/wav`, `audio/webm`
	Parameter defaults	Temperature: 0.0-2.0 (default 1.0) topP: 0.0-1.0 (default 0.95) topK: 64 (fixed) candidateCount: 1–8 (default 1)
Supported regions	Model availability	Global: `global`
Versions	`gemini-3-flash-preview` Launch stage: Public preview Release date: December 17, 2025