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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Gemini 3 Flash.

A model-level benchmark profile for Gemini 3 Flash, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Google lab page

Lab

Google

Proprietary

Coverage

78%

7 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#17

Vision Arena

Best suite

#14

Value / 73

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Gemini 3 Flash is strongest on value.

78% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #14 in the value view, with a 73 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is Vision Arena at rank #17 with 19,319 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#14 / 73 value index

Strongest raw signal

Vision

#17, 1260 score

Commercial posture

$1.13

0.92s first token / 191 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Search ArenaDocument Arena

Profile completeness

7 of 9 signals matched

78%

Arena categories

3/5

Vision, Text, Code

Commercial match

Live

Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning)

SWE-bench

#2

bash-only

Raw identifier

gemini-3-flash (thinking-minimal)

ReasoningMultimodal

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,461#29

1458-1465 CI

52,876 votes

May 27, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,387#42

1381-1393 CI

16,396 votes

May 25, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,260#17

1253-1267 CI

19,319 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

75.8%#2

bash-only

gemini-3-flash-preview

Feb 17, 2026

SWE-bench Verified

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$1.13

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.500

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$3.00

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

0.92s

Median time to first token

Output speed

191 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Non-reasoning)

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#1473

value index

blended / 1M tokens$1.13
time to first token0.92s
output speed191 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#1873

coding index

Code Arena rank #421,387
SWE-bench rank #275.8%
output speed191 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#6478

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency0.92s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#2863

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #291,461
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #171,260

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#4555

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #291,461

Lab context

Nearby Google profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Gemini 3.1 Pro Grounding

gemini-3.1-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#4

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

gemini-3.1-pro-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

67%

Gemini 3 Pro

gemini-3-pro

Proprietary

Best rank

#6

Coverage

56%

Gemini 3 Pro Grounding

gemini-3-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#7

Coverage

11%

Gemini 3.5 Flash

gemini-3.5-flash

Proprietary

Best rank

#10

Coverage

56%

Gemini 3 Flash Grounding

gemini-3-flash-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#10

Coverage

11%

Gemma 4 31b

gemma-4-31b

Open weights

Best rank

#23

Coverage

56%

Gemini 2.5 Pro Grounding

gemini-2.5-pro-grounding

Proprietary

Best rank

#23

Coverage

11%