Gemini 3 Flash

Google

balanced

Capabilities

VisionToolsCodeLong ContextExtended ThinkingStructured OutputMultilingualAudioVideo

Strengths

Excellent cost/performance
Pro-grade reasoning at Flash pricing
Full multimodal

Weaknesses

Not quite Pro quality on hardest reasoning

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.5

Output / 1M tokens

Context window

1,000k

Transparency

Open weights

0.0 / 10

Open training data

0.0 / 10

Open methodology

5.0 / 10

Licence openness

3.0 / 10

Provider disclosure

4.0 / 10

FMTI company score

360.0 / 10

Composite:2.4 / 10

Google FMTI 36. Dropped 6 points from 2024. Model cards but limited training data disclosure.

Sustainability

Inference energy

8.0 / 10

Training footprint

4.0 / 10

Provider infrastructure

8.0 / 10

Composite:6.7 / 10

Flash models designed for efficiency. TPU infrastructure. Google 100% renewable match since 2017. Published per-query energy: 0.24 Wh median text prompt. Targeting 24/7 carbon-free by 2030.

Task Fitness

Code

88%

Vision

88%

Analyse

82%

Extract

85%

Generate

80%

Summarise

85%

Translate

85%

Conversation

80%