On: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

[primaprashant]

Pricing is $0.5 / $3 per million input / output tokens. 2.5 Flash was $0.3 / $2.5. That's 66% increase in input tokens and 20% increase in output token pricing.

For comparison, from 2.5 Pro ($1.25 / $10) to 3 Pro ($2 / $12), there was 60% increase in input tokens and 20% increase in output tokens pricing.

[simonw → primaprashant]

Calculating price increases is made more complex by the difference in token usage. From https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/ :

> Gemini 3 Flash is able to modulate how much it thinks. It may think longer for more complex use cases, but it also uses 30% fewer tokens on average than 2.5 Pro.

[Tiberium → simonw]

Yes, but also most of the increase in 3 Flash is in the input context price, which isn't affected by reasoning.

[int_19h → Tiberium]

It is affected if it has to round-trip, e.g. because it's making tool calls.

[prvc → primaprashant]

Apples to oranges.