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🇺🇸 United States generalistReleased December 2025

Gemini 3 Flash

Google
FreeEU hosting Card data 82/100 Trust Index 80
Verdict

Strong value for high-volume usage.

Overview

Gemini 3 Flash is extremely fast (250 tokens/sec) and one of the cheapest on the market while remaining multimodal. Excellent for consumer apps, high-traffic chatbots, indexing or large-scale video search.

Skill profile

FrenchReasoningSpeedCreativitySafety
Arena Elo1473
Verified benchmarks
GPQA60%
MATH78%
MMLU79.5%
HumanEval82%

Three independent measures

What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.

Preference
Which answer do people prefer, blind?
1473Elo
Sensitive to answer style and length.
Capability
What can the model do on measured tasks?
26.3/ 100
Aggregates ten evaluations run by Artificial Analysis.
Adoption
What does the market actually use?
Not measured yet
Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings). CC BY 4.0
OpenRouter traffic only: measures adoption, not quality, and misses direct use of vendor APIs.

What do these scores mean?

GPQA60%solid

PhD-level science questions (physics, chemistry, biology), with no tool access.

MATH78%very good

Competition-level math problems.

MMLU79.5%very good

General knowledge across dozens of academic subjects.

HumanEval82%excellent

Python code generation from specifications.

Strengths

  • Strong French quality
  • World-class on Arena
  • Very long context
  • Has a free tier

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
  • you work in French
  • your data must stay in the EU
Skip it if…

    Ideal use cases

    • High-volume multimodal tasks
    • Real-time apps
    • Indexing
    • Video search
    • Gemini free tier

    Access & availability

    Paid API per tokenFree tier available

    Key specifications

    Context
    1M
    Input price
    $0.50/M
    Output price
    $3.00/M
    Speed
    250 tok/s
    Price verified Jun 1, 2026·Official source ↗Benchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    $22.5 / month
    ≈ 20.7 € · 20.0 M tokens
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    80/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    20/20 criteria documented · 100 %

    Data90
    5/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty43
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise100
    6/6 · 20 %
    Licence85
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria▾
    Data
    EU data residency
    No transfer outside EU50
    No training on your data
    Configurable retention
    Zero Data Retention
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offered
    European vendorcountry: US30
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitments
    Subprocessor list published
    Enterprise
    DPA available
    SSO / SAML
    SCIM provisioning
    Audit logs
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001
    Vendor private endpoint
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeproprietary70
    Full ranking and methodology

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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyYes
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Yes
    Transfer outside the EUDepends on plan
    Training on your dataNo
    Configurable retentionYes
    Zero Data RetentionYes
    Self-hostableNo
    Declared hostingUS/EU
    Anonymisable dataYes

    Quality of this card’s data

    82/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    6/6 documented · 3/6 primary sources · 1 older than 90 days

    API pricingofficial
    Context windownAIvigate assessment
    Arena EloLMArena, human preferenceindependent
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)vendor-reported, not cross-checkednAIvigate assessment
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceofficial
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
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    Architecture
    MoE
    Size
    undisclosed
    Cutoff date
    Jun 2025
    Inputs
    text, image, audio, video
    Outputs
    text, code
    License
    proprietary
    Hosting
    US/EU
    Hallucination score
    3/5
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    ≈ $0.0045
    1M in + 1M out
    ≈ $3.50
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo1473
    MMLU79.5%
    GPQA60.0%
    HumanEval82.0%
    SWE-Bench—
    MATH78.0%

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