PANews reported on December 18th that Google has launched Gemini 3 Flash , positioned as a high-speed, low-cost cutting-edge intelligent model, with its API and Vertex AI now open for integration. Google claims it achieves 90.4% on GPQA Diamond and 33.7% on Humanity's Last Exam (toolless) , making it faster and cheaper than the 2.5 Pro, and even outperforming the previous version at the lowest Thinking level. Pricing is $0.50 per million tokens for input and $3 per million tokens for output ( $1 per million for audio input). It supports context caching (up to 90% cost reduction ) and Batch API (50% cost reduction , higher speed). New features include enhanced visual / spatial reasoning and code execution, allowing for image scaling, counting, and editing, and it is integrated into Google AI Studio , Antigravity , Gemini CLI , Android Studio, and Vertex AI .