Gemini 3 Flash Preview pricing and routing profile
Gemini 3 Flash Preview from Google lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens, with a 1,048,576-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.33 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $2.20 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $5.50 |
Before prompt caching. Try your own shape in the cost calculator.
Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Gemini 3 Flash Preview. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Gemini 3 Flash Preview that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.42 / $3.00 | 7% |
| Kimi K2.5 | $0.45 / $2.25 | 18% |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | $0.325 / $1.95 | 35% |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.44 / $1.32 | 36% |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | $0.23 / $2.30 | 37% |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking | $0.20 / $2.40 | 38% |
Questions
How much does Gemini 3 Flash Preview cost?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $2.20 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
1,048,576 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Gemini 3 Flash Preview?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Gemini 3 Flash Preview on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.