Gemini 3 Flash Preview

gemini-3-flash-preview

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is a fast, cost-efficient reasoning model designed for agent workflows, multi-turn chat, and coding assistance. It offers near-Pro level reasoning and tool-use performance with significantly lower latency than larger Gemini models, making it ideal for interactive development and long-running agent loops. It improves on Gemini 2.5 Flash with stronger reasoning, multimodal understanding, and reliability. The model supports a 1M-token context window and multimodal inputs (text, images, audio, video, PDFs) with text outputs. It provides configurable reasoning levels, structured output formats, tool use, and automatic context caching—optimized for users seeking strong agentic reasoning without the cost or latency of full frontier-scale models.

Context: 1.0M tokens
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Pricing

Input$0.25 / 1M

Output$1.50 / 1M

Cache Write (5m)$0.25 / 1M

Cache Write (1h)$0.25 / 1M

Cache Read$0.25 / 1M

Web Search$0 / 1M

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from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="gemini-3-flash-preview",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="gemini-3-flash-preview",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

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