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:5.5 / 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 (this has been downgraded on new information about Google using gas powered stations for data centres and moving off 2030 target)

Task Fitness

question answering

81%

code

88%

mathematics

85%

business communication

68%

analysis

82%

extraction

85%

long-form generation

80%

research

57%

reasoning

82%

summarisation

85%

translation

85%

conversation

80%