Gemini 3 Flash arrives as a clear bet: frontier intelligence that runs faster and costs a lot less. Sound familiar — that tension between speed and accuracy? With this release, Google promises you won’t have to sacrifice one for the other.
What is Gemini 3 Flash and why it matters
Gemini 3 Flash is the new optimized variant of the Gemini 3 family, designed for developers and companies that need advanced reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and code execution over visual inputs — but with low latency and reduced costs.
Technically, it pushes the Pareto frontier between performance and efficiency: it outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on multiple benchmarks and reaches competitive results on high-level evaluations like GPQA Diamond (90.4%) and Humanity's Last Exam (33.7% without tools). According to tests by Artificial Analysis, it’s up to 3x faster than 2.5 Pro and runs at less than a quarter of the cost of 3 Pro.
The key: frontier performance, advanced multimodality (vision and spatial reasoning) and code execution over images (zoom, counting, editing), all optimized for production.
