Pricingby GlyphGemini 3 Flash Preview is a high speed, high value thinking model designed for agentic workflows, multi turn chat, and coding assistance.
Ways to buy 6
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
global-flex, cheapest · cached $0.025 | $0.25 | $1.5 | $0.25 / $1.5-50% vs list | $0.025 | -50% vs list |
flex · cached $0.025 | $0.25 | $1.5 | $0.25 / $1.5-50% vs list | $0.025 | -50% vs list |
The lab's own API · cached $0.05 | $0.5 | $3 | $0.5 / $3List price | $0.05 | List price |
global · cached $0.05 | $0.5 | $3 | $0.5 / $3Same as list | $0.05 | Same as list |
global-priority · cached $0.09 | $0.9 | $5.4 | $0.9 / $5.4+80% vs list | $0.09 | +80% vs list |
priority · cached $0.09 | $0.9 | $5.4 | $0.9 / $5.4+80% vs list | $0.09 | +80% vs list |
USD per 1M tokens; batch $0.25 in, $1.5 out on the lab's API. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $110.00 direct.
Helicone$110.00+0%
Kong AI Gateway$110.00+0%
LiteLLM$110.00+0%
Requesty$115.50+5%
Eden AI$116.05+5.5%
OpenRouter$116.05+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Vercel AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Martian Gateway, Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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Google · 131K | $1.5 | $9 | $1.5 / $9 | $3.38 | 131K | Lab list price | · | Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. |
Google · 131K | $1.5 | $9 | $1.5 / $9 | $3.38 | 131K | Lab list price | · | Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. |
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About Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Takes text, image, files, audio, video in and returns text. First listed Dec 20, 2025. Up to 66K output tokens. Blended price $1.13 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id gemini-3-flash-preview.
Price history
List price since Dec 20, 2025, from Internet Archive snapshots of the OpenRouter catalog, then daily reads.
Questions
How much does Gemini 3 Flash Preview cost?
$0.5 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05, or $0.25 and $1.5 through the Batch API.
What is the context window of Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
1M tokens, with up to 66K tokens of output.
Where is Gemini 3 Flash Preview cheapest?
Of 6 routes tracked, Google Vertex AI is cheapest at $0.25 input and $1.5 output per million tokens.