This model is deprecated. We still benchmark its performance, but less often: every 18 hours instead of every 6.
Google has launched a newer release, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. We suggest considering it instead.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Available providers
Model summary
Performance
Verbosity
Gemini 3 Pro Preview (High) supports text, image, speech, and video input, outputs text, and has a 1M tokens context window with knowledge up to January 2025.
Pricing for Gemini 3 Pro Preview (High) is $2.00 per 1M input tokens (moderately priced, median: $2.00) and $12.00 per 1M output tokens (somewhat expensive, median: $10.00).
| Reasoning | Yes |
|---|---|
| Input modality | Supports: text, image, speech, and video |
| Output modality | Supports: text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M ~1500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
Time per Task
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task
Evaluations
Visual reasoning
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Further details
Weights | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3 Pro Preview (High) |  Google | - | - | 1M | $1.74 | - | - | Not available | |
| Gemini 3 Pro Preview (Low) | Google | - | - | 1M | $1.74 | - | - | Not available | |
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Gemini 3 Pro Preview was released on November 18, 2025.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview was created by Google.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens (better than average, median: $2.00) and $12.00 per 1M output tokens (somewhat higher than average, median: $10.00), based on Google's API for low and the median across providers for high.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview costs $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $12.00 per 1M output tokens (based on Google's API for low and the median across providers for high). For a blended rate (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio), this is $1.74 per 1M tokens. Pricing may vary by provider. Compare provider pricing
Yes, Gemini 3 Pro Preview is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports text, image, speech, and video input.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports text output.
Yes, Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports image input and can analyze, describe, and answer questions about images.
Yes, Gemini 3 Pro Preview is multimodal. It can process text, image, speech, and video input and generate text output.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview has a context window of 1M tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.
No, Gemini 3 Pro Preview is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview is a proprietary model and Google has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.
Gemini 3 Pro Preview has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025. The model's training data includes information up to this date.
Yes, Gemini 3 Pro Preview is available via API through 1 provider. Compare API providers
Gemini 3 Pro Preview is available through 1 API provider. Compare providers