Google Gemini 3 family
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/gemini-3/
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 frontier model family — Gemini 3 Pro (top tier), 3 Flash (fast), 3 Nano (on-device). Substrate for Google Workspace AI, Vertex AI Agent Platform, Gemini Code Assist, Project Mariner, and Project Astra. Multimodal-native; 1M-10M context window. Largest context window of any frontier model. Used by Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Memory Bank (separate row).
Active · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 35 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2023-12 (Gemini 1.0); 2024-02 (1.5 Pro); 2024-12 (2.0); 2025-03 (2.5 Pro); 2025-12 (Gemini 3) vendor fix
- Latest release
- Gemini 4 Argon (GA 2026-10-13); Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-09-02) vendor fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Paid per 1M in/out: Gemini 4 Argon $2/$10 intro to 2026-11-30, then $4/$20 (no free tier); Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75/$3.75 (free tier available) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-31 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- SDK languages
- go, java, python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- openai-compatible vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: multimodal reasoning, ultra-long context (10M tokens), GCP-native enterprise deployments
Anti-fit: Gemini Apps consumer privacy concerns; Vertex consumption pricing complex; weights closed (Gemma is separate open-weights family)
Pros & cons
Pros
Largest context window (1M-10M tokens) of frontier tier; native multimodal (single architecture); GCP enterprise distribution; FedRAMP High; Gemma open-weights companion family.
Cons
Smaller LMSYS Arena share than Claude/GPT; consumer Gemini apps less polished than ChatGPT; pricing complexity at Vertex; lags Claude on agentic coding benchmarks.
Claims & capabilities
Gemini 3 Pro 2025-12 launch; 1M-10M token context (largest of frontier tier); multimodal-native (text+image+video+audio+code); state-of-art on long-context retrieval benchmarks
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST + gRPC + SDK (Python, Node, Go, Java, .NET, Dart); Google AI Studio + Vertex AI
- Backend storage
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- Deployment
- Managed cloud (Google AI Studio + GCP Vertex AI); on-prem via Gemini-Distributed-Cloud + Gemma open-weights
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- MCP
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- A2A
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
Compare Google Gemini 3 family with…
Similar systems
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- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) T1
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Sources (34 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Frontier foundation model family (Gemini 3 Pro / Flash / Nano) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 frontier model family — Gemini 3 Pro (top tier), 3 Flash (fas… vendor
- Claims / benefits Gemini 3 Pro 2025-12 launch; 1M-10M token context (largest of frontier tier); multimodal… vendor
- Modalities text, image, video, audio (in + out), code; multimodal-native (single architecture) vendor
- Created 2023-12 (Gemini 1.0); 2024-02 (1.5 Pro); 2024-12 (2.0); 2025-03 (2.5 Pro); 2025-12 (Gemi… vendor
- Latest release Gemini 4 Argon (GA 2026-10-13); Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-09-02) vendor
- Mindshare Workspace integration → 3B users; Vertex AI dominant on GCP; Gemma open-weights download… vendor
- Funding Alphabet (GOOGL) public; ~$2T+ market cap; Google AI capex $75B+ 2025 vendor
- Customers / scale Workspace (3B users), Box, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Snap, Snowflake, Pfizer, Ver… vendor
- Pricing Paid per 1M in/out: Gemini 4 Argon $2/$10 intro to 2026-11-30, then $4/$20 (no free tier… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/17/18/42001, HIPAA (BAA), FedRAMP High, GDPR, PCI DSS, CSA STAR vendor
- Data handling Never trains on GCP/Workspace customer data; consumer Gemini Apps opt-out available vendor
- Deployment Managed cloud (Google AI Studio + GCP Vertex AI); on-prem via Gemini-Distributed-Cloud +… vendor
- HQ Mountain View, US (Google DeepMind in London + US) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Google DeepMind; Demis Hassabis (CEO DeepMind); under Sundar Pichai (Google/Alphabet CEO) vendor
- Performance MMLU-Pro: ~85%; AIME 2025: ~93%; GPQA Diamond: ~85%; Video-MME: SOTA (Gemini-native mult… vendor
- API surface REST + gRPC + SDK (Python, Node, Go, Java, .NET, Dart); Google AI Studio + Vertex AI vendor
- LLM lock single-vendor (Google-only family) vendor
- Runtimes any (HTTP API) vendor
- Validated verticals consumer, enterprise productivity, financial services, healthcare, retail, public sector… vendor
- Time to running <5min (Google AI Studio key); <30min (Vertex AI project) vendor
- Anti-fit Gemini Apps consumer privacy concerns; Vertex consumption pricing complex; weights close… vendor
- Optimised for multimodal reasoning, ultra-long context (10M tokens), GCP-native enterprise deployments vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Google AI Studio (dev sandbox); GCP Vertex AI (production); see Gemini Enterprise Agent … vendor
- Pros Largest context window (1M-10M tokens) of frontier tier; native multimodal (single archi… vendor
- Cons Smaller LMSYS Arena share than Claude/GPT; consumer Gemini apps less polished than ChatG… vendor
- Project & sources blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-3/ vendor
- capability-benchmark-sources osworld: 81.5% (Gemini 4 Carbon, OSWorld 2.1 offline 82-task subset partial score, max o… vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
- sdk-languages go,java,python,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support openai-compatible vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-3/” → “https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/gemini-3/”
- 2026-10-26
- Latest release “Gemini 3 Pro (2025-12), Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3 Nano” → “Gemini 4 Argon (GA 2026-10-13); Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-09-02)” source
- Pricing “Pay-per-token (Gemini 3 Pro $1.25/$10 per 1M; Flash $0.30/$2.50); Gemini Advanced ($20/mo consumer); Gemini Enterprise pricing via GCP” → “Paid per 1M in/out: Gemini 4 Argon $2/$10 intro to 2026-11-30, then $4/$20 (no free tier); Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75/$3.75 (free tier available)” source
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