Gemini 3 Flash API pricing per million tokens
Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output, with a 1.05M context window.
AIGROW credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon. Gemini 4 Argon below list price
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Number 59 of 256 on the Epoch Capabilities Index by Epoch AI, data of 12 November 2026. CC BY 4.0 Newer model: Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 1,000 support replies
- $2.70
- Cached input
- $0.05
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Released
- Dec 2025
- Weights
- Closed weights
From Google’s own pages, 12 November 2026.
Gemini 3 Flash costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens on Google’s own API, and $0.05 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $2.70, the 16th cheapest of 49 priced models on our list.
AIGROW API credit per million input / output tokens: Claude Opus 5.5 $1.60 / $8.00, Claude Fable 5.2 $3.20 / $16.00, Claude Fable 5.1 $4.00 / $20.00, GPT-6 Astra $2.50 / $12.50, Claude Sonnet 5.5 $0.80 / $4.00, GPT-6.1 Sol $0.50 / $2.50, GPT-6.1 Terra $0.25 / $1.25, Grok 4.7 $0.50 / $1.50 and Gemini 4 Argon $1.00 / $5.00. That is up to 75% below list price. See API credit
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Gemini 3 Flash among the 49 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 49 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $2.70 | 16th cheapest |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $15.50 | 16th cheapest |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $17.50 | 15th cheapest |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Google’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
In preview; Google now calls it its legacy Flash model. Audio input $1.00 (cached $0.10). Batch 50% off. Cache storage $1.00 per MTok per hour. No long-context surcharge.
Gemini 3 Flash against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Google's earlier Flash against the one that replaces it, with 3 Flash cheaper on input and on output.
Other Google models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogleNewer model: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | $0.25 | $1.50 | 1.05M | $1.35 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1.05M | $1.90 |
| Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.05M | $3.75 |
| Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | $10.00 |
| Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | $10.00 |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)GoogleNewer model: Gemini 4 Argon | $2.00 | $12.00 | 1.05M | $10.80 |
Where the price comes from
Read on 12 November 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare Gemini 3 Flash with 53 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026 · See them by release date